A petty reason perhaps why ... by Graham Greene, a British Playwright

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“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”

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Name: Graham Greene

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Oct 2, 1904

Date of Death: Apr 3, 1991

Profession: Playwright

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

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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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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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