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Graham Greene war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Er begann als Journalist und arbeitete dann als Romancier, Dramatiker und Drehbuchautor. Viele seiner Romane, Erzählungen und Theaterstücke wurden verfilmt. Ferner schrieb er Reiseliteratur, Essays und Kinderbücher. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Oktober 1904 – 3. April 1991
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„Gehen Sie niemals davon aus, dass Ihre Moral besser ist.“

Graham Greene

„Der Mensch ist ein Geschöpf, dem es bestimmt ist, in Katastrophen zu leben.“

Graham Greene

Vom Paradox des Christentums

„Die Harmlosen kann man nicht tadeln, weil sie immer unschuldig sind. Man kann sie nur zügeln und ausmerzen. Die Unschuld ist eine Form des Wahnsinns.“

Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner

Der stille Amerikaner, Deutsch von Walther Puchwein. Hamburg 1958, S. 148
Original: "He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity." - The Quiet American, 1955, Part III, chapter 2, page 216.

„Die meisten Dinge enttäuschen, bis Sie tiefer schauen.“

Graham Greene

Graham Greene Zitate und Sprüche

„Rivalität ist bis zu einem gewissen Grade eine gesunde Sache.“

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Der menschliche Faktor

„was ich anbiete, sind Sicherheit und Respekt. Das klingt nicht sehr aufregend, aber vielleicht ist es besser als Leidenschaft.“

Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner

Der stille Amerikaner. Zsolnay Wien books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=istPAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT82&amp;dq=Respekt <br class="br">&quot;what I offer is security and respect. That doesn&#x27;t sound very exciting, but perhaps it&#x27;s better than passion.&quot; - The Quiet American, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nH4gs8gElOMC&amp;pg=PA70&amp;dq=passion

„Früher oder später muss man Partei ergreifen, wenn man ein Mensch bleiben will.“

Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner

Der stille Amerikaner, Deutsch von Walther Puchwein. Hamburg 1958, S. 281
Original: "Sooner or later … one has to take sides – if one is to remain human." - The Quiet American, Part IV, chapter 2

„Männer, die die Stadt für immer verlassen hatten, erinnerten sich manchmal an einem grauen, naßkalten Abend in London des rosigen Schimmers und der glühenden Pracht, die, kaum gesehen, auch schon wieder verblichen; sie fragten sich dann, warum sie die Küste so gehaßt hatten, und solange sie einen Tropfen im Glase hatten, sehnten sie sich danach, dorthin zurückzukehren.“

Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge

The Heart of the Matter

„Zynismus ist billig - man kann ihn in jedem Monoprix-Geschäft kaufen - es ist in alle minderwertigen Waren eingebaut.“

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Graham Greene: Zitate auf Englisch

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Quelle: The End of the Affair

“I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Quelle: The End of the Affair

“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”

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“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”

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Graham Greene buch Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana (1958)

“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

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Graham Greene buch Das Herz aller Dinge

Quelle: The Heart of the Matter

“When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Quelle: The End of the Affair

“The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.”

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Graham Greene buch The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.”

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Graham Greene buch The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”

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(8 July 1987) Reported in Leopoldo Duran, Graham Greene: An intimate portrait by his closest friend and confidant, translated by Euan Cameron. HarperCollins, 1994, p. 97

“We mustn’t complain too much of being comedians—it’s an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed—that’s all. We are bad comedians, we aren’t bad men.”

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Graham Greene buch The Comedians

Pt. 1, ch. 5, sct. 2
The Comedians (1966)

“Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.”

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Graham Greene buch The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”

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Graham Greene buch Monsignor Quixote

On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)

“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)

“To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)

“[After Hale's cremation] She came out of the crematorium, and there from the twin towers above her head fumed the very last of Fred, a thin stream of grey smoke from the ovens. Fred dropped indistinguishable grey ash on the pink blossoms: he became part of the smoke nuisance over London, and Ida wept.”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

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Graham Greene buch A Sort of Life

A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)

“I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.”

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Graham Greene buch The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

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Graham Greene buch The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“The hurt is in the act of possession; we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

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Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner

Pt. II, ch. 3
The Quiet American (1955)

“We do not choose our concerns.”

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Graham Greene buch The Third Man

The Third Man (1949)

“God…created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution.”

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Graham Greene buch Travels with My Aunt

Pt. 2, ch. 7
Travels with My Aunt (1969)

“That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.”

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Graham Greene

Getting to know the General (1984)

“A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man…. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”

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Graham Greene buch The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 7, sct. 1
The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“[Cubitt hurling insults at Pinky after he refuses to lend him money] The picture Cubitt drew had got nothing to do with him: it was like the pictures men drew of Christ, the image of their own sentimentality. …He was like a professor describing to a stranger some place he had only read in books:…when all the time it was a country the stranger knew…”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.”

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International Herald Tribune (October 7, 1977)

“Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?…Like a marriage from which love has gone…And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.”

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Graham Greene The Potting Shed

The Potting Shed (1957)

“…the Boy sat silent. It was he this time who was being warned: life held the vitriol bottle and warned him: I'll spoil your looks.”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too—it’s just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word “Love” means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and “Ave Maria” like “dearest” is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world’s marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves—it was God’s taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

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Graham Greene buch A Burnt-Out Case

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 2
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)

“[Rose, taken out for the evening by Pinkie] She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present – she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“And all that time I couldn’t work. So much of a novelist’s writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them. War didn’t trouble those deep sea-caves, but not there was something of infinitely greater importance to me than war, than my novel – the end of love. That was being worked out not, like a story: the pointed word that sent her crying, that seemed to have come so spontaneously to the lips, had been sharpened in those underwater caverns. My novel lagged, but my love hurried like inspiration to the end.”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 6
The End of the Affair (1951)

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