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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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Graham Greene Berühmte Zitate

„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.“

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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

“Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.”

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Graham Greene buch The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”

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Graham Greene buch The Comedians

Pt. 1, ch. 4, sct. 1
The Comedians (1966)

“The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.”

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From journal kept while writing A Burnt-Out Case (1959)

“[Priest at Hale's cremation] "…our brother is at this moment reabsorbed in the universal spirit."”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

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Graham Greene buch Our Man in Havana

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 1
Our Man in Havana (1958)

“Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism … is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politique…. Catholics and communists have commited great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate…if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”

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Graham Greene buch The Comedians

Pt. 2, ch. 4, sct. 4
The Comedians (1966)

“Can you hate something you don't believe in? And yet he called himself a free-thinker. What an impossible paradox, to be free and to be so obsessed.”

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"The Hint of an Explanation" (1948), Twenty-One Stories, 1954
Short Stories

“What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.”

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Graham Greene buch Der stille Amerikaner

Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 242
The Quiet American (1955)

“Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.”

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Graham Greene buch Our Man in Havana

Pt. 1, ch. 3, sct. 3
Our Man in Havana (1958)

“Cynicism is cheap—you can buy it at any Monoprix store—it’s built into all poor-quality goods.”

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Graham Greene buch The Comedians

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 3
The Comedians (1966)

“I was trying to write a book that simply would not come. I did my daily five hundred words, but the characters never began to live. So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and change conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends. But this hate and suspicion, this passion to destroy went deeper than the book – the unconscious worked on it instead…”

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Graham Greene buch The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 2
The End of the Affair (1951)

“[About Pinkie's inability to empathise] The imagination hadn't awoken. That was his strength. He couldn't see through other people's eyes, or feel with their nerves. Only the music made him uneasy.”

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Graham Greene buch Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”

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Speech on receiving the Shakespeare Prize awarded by the University of Hamburg, Germany (1969)

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

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Independent (London, April 4, 1991)

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