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A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn’t conceive what it had never experienced
– Graham Greene

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  10. I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. – Graham Greene
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  14. Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again. – Graham Greene
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  23. She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there. – Graham Greene
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  25. It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. – Graham Greene
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  27. A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. – Graham Greene
  28. Hate is a lack of imagination. – Graham Greene
  29. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
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  31. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. – Graham Greene
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  35. Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times. – Graham Greene
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  40. Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. – Graham Greene

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