They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there. β¨ Graham Greene (1970). The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
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- There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. β¨ Graham Greene (1970). The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
- So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. β¨ Graham Greene (1974). The end of the affair, Vintage
- How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the mo β¦ βΆ
- I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain β¦ βΆ
- In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! β¨ Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). The third man: a film, Lorrimer Pub β¦ βΆ
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