The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...'
'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.'
'I don't remember that.'
'The history books gloss it over.

Graham Greene


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There wasn't any point in being angry with anyone - the offender was too obviously myself...

Graham Greene


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I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

Graham Greene


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I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.

Graham Greene


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Is confidence based on a rate of exchange? We used to speak of sterling qualities. Have we got to talk now about a dollar love? A dollar love, of course, would include marriage and Junior and Mother's Day, even though later it might include Reno or the Virgin Islands or wherever they go nowadays for their divorces. A dollar love had good intentions, a clear conscience, and to Hell with everybody.

Graham Greene


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Do you like dogs?'
'No.'
'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.'
'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.

Graham Greene


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‎His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

Graham Greene


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...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together.

Graham Greene


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...it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

Graham Greene


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Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

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