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You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
— Graham Greene The Third Man
Tags: sinister, humor

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
— Graham Greene
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
— Graham Greene
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
— Graham Greene
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
— Graham Greene
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