“Thrillers are like life—more like life than you are … it’s what we’ve all made of the world.”

—  Graham Greene, book The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 5
The Ministry of Fear (1943)

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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

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