To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if …

Graham Greene
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To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. ✨ Graham Greene (1951). The End of the Affair, London Heinemann [1951]
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To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. ✨ Graham Greene (1951). The End of the Affair, London Heinemann [1951]

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