WIST Quotations

Greene, Graham -- “Freedom of Thought,” speech accepting the Jerusalem Prize (6 Apr 1981)

Dave — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:25:17 +0000

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Graham Greene (1904-1991) English novelist [Henry Graham Greene]
“Freedom of Thought,” speech accepting the Jerusalem Prize (6 Apr 1981)
(Source)

Greene, Graham -- “The Poker-Face,” The Spectator (15 Oct 1943)

Dave — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:51:00 +0000

It isn’t easy for an author to remain a pleasant human being: both success and failure are usually of a crippling kind.

Graham Greene (1904-1991) English novelist [Henry Graham Greene]
“The Poker-Face,” The Spectator (15 Oct 1943)
(Source)

Reprinted in The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951).

Greene, Graham -- The Comedians [Dr. Magiot] (1966)

Dave — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:41:39 +0000

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?

Graham Greene (1904-1991) English novelist [Henry Graham Greene]
The Comedians [Dr. Magiot] (1966)
(Source)

Greene, Graham -- The End of the Affair, Book 1, ch. 2 (1951)

Dave — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:07:55 +0000

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance 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.

Graham Greene (1904-1991) English novelist [Henry Graham Greene]
The End of the Affair, Book 1, ch. 2 (1951)
(Source)