A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses th… - Graham Greene

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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.

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A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

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.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead. - Graham Greene

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