“The hurt is in the act of possession; we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

— Graham Greene, book The Quiet American

Pt. II, ch. 3
The Quiet American (1955)

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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

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