“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

—  Graham Greene, book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

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