“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”
Graham Greene book The Quiet American
Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Source: The Quiet American (1955)
“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”
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