“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

—  Graham Greene, book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

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