“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

—  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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