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Henry Graham Greene mais conhecido como Graham Greene, foi um jornalista e escritor britânico, com uma obra composta de romances, contos, peças teatrais e críticas literárias e de cinema. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Outubro 1904 – 3. Abril 1991
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Graham Greene Frases famosas

“A política, a guerra, o casamento, o crime, o adultério. Tudo o que existe no mundo tem algo a ver com dinheiro.”

Graham Greene

“A fama é um afrodisíaco potente.”

Graham Greene

“A vingança é salutar ao caráter; dela brota o perdão.”

Graham Greene

Fonte: "O Nó do Problema"

“Os comunistas têm cometido grandes crimes, mas, pelo menos, não têm ficado à margem, como uma sociedade estabelecida, nem têm sido indiferentes. Eu preferiria ter sangue nas mãos a ter água, como Pilatos.”

Graham Greene

Fonte: Os Comediantes

Citações de pessoas de Graham Greene

“Nenhum de nós jamais morreria por amor. Iríamos sofrer e nos separar e encontrar outra pessoa. Pertencía-mos ao mundo da comédia, não ao da tragédia.”

Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Os Farsantes

“Contra o que é habitual crer, a verdade é quase sempre divertida. A única coisa que as pessoas se dão ao trabalho de inventar são tragédias.”

Graham Greene

Citações de idade de Graham Greene

“Ali estavam as palavras incríveis que a desobrigavam de necessidade de retribuição ou de recusar suas gentilezas: o encanto e o espírito eram considerados coisas mais valiosas do que qualquer presente que ele lhe oferecesse e, se uma jovem era amada, mesmo as mulheres velhas e experientes admitiriam que ela tinha o direito de recebê-los sem jamais dar nada em troca.”

Graham Greene

Trem de Istambul

“Lamentava tê-la envolvido naquilo, mas só o lamentava porque o poderia ter lamentado uma mentira necessária. Reconhecera sempre a necessidade de sacrificar a sua própria integridade; só u m partido que estivesse no poder poderia possuir escrúpulos; escrúpulos de sua parte seriam uma confissão de que ele duvidava do valor supremo de sua causa.”

Graham Greene

Trem de Istambul

“Nossas vozes iam ficando cada vez mais altas na escuridão sob a estátua. Como todas as brigas desse tipo, não levou a nada, apenas a uma ferida que sara com facilidade. Há lugar para tantas feridas diferentes antes de percebermos que estamos arrancando uma velha crosta.”

Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Os Farsantes

“A idade é muito cansativa e a vida dura demasiado tempo.”

Graham Greene

Graham Greene frases e citações

“Desespero é o preço que se paga ao se dar um objetivo impossível.”

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
The heart of the matter - página xvii, Graham Greene - Heinemann Educational, 1968 - 266 páginas

“O comissário de bordo apanhou o último cartão de desembarque e ficou a observar os passageiros que atravessavam o cais cinzento e molhado, sobre uma vastidão de trilhos e sinais, desaparecendo atrás de caminhões abandonados.”

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Trem de Istambul

“Ao contrário de Wormold, que não acreditava em nada, Milly era católica: ele tivera de prometer à sua mãe, antes do casamento, que assim seria. Agora a mãe, pensava ele, não tinha fé alguma, mas deixara-lhe uma católica nas mãos.”

Graham Greene livro Our Man in Havana

Nosso Homem em Havana

“A transitoriedade era a minha pigmentação; minhas raízes jamais penetrariam tão profundamente em qualquer lugar a ponto de me proporcionar um lar ou me fazer sentir seguro como o amor.”

Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Os Farsantes

“Desde que ingressara na firma, como um jovem recruta, há mais de trinta anos, Castle sempre almoçava num restaurante atrás da Sr. James´s Street, não muito longe do escritório.”

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O Fator Humano

“Buller estava lambendo as chamadas partes íntimas com o mesmo prazer de um conselheiro municipal a tomar sopa.”

Graham Greene

O Fator Humano

“E ele pôs na vitrola A hard day´s night.”

Graham Greene

O Fator Humano

“Sentimentalismo é como chamamos o sentimento que não compartilhamos.”

Graham Greene

Variante: Sentimentalismo é o nome que damos aos sentimentos que não partilhamos.

“O amor não conhece o que se possa chamar de vitória; apenas alguns pequenos sucessos estratégicos, antes do desastre final da morte ou da indiferença.”

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“O sucesso é mais perigoso do que o fracasso, as ondas quebram ao longo de uma costa mais ampla.”

Graham Greene

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“[Sobre o personagem de Pinkie] A palavra assassinato não transmitia-o mais do que a palavra 'caixa', 'colar', 'girafa'.”

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Graham Greene: Frases em inglês

“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 livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: 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 livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

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

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Graham Greene

(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 livro Os Farsantes

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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro The Quiet American

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

“We do not choose our concerns.”

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Graham Greene livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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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Graham Greene

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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro The End of the Affair

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

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