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Graham Greene

  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    The canal was full of bodies: I am reminded now of an Irish stew containing too much meat
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Two can play at that game.’ I too took my eyes away; we didn’t want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply and anonymously death came
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    One knew what these people believed even if one didn’t share their belief: they were human beings, not just grey drained cadavers
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Mal chance,’ the lieutenant said. He bent down and turned the child over. He was wearing a holy medal round his neck, and I said to myself, ‘The juju doesn’t work.’ There was a gnawed piece of loaf under his body. I thought, ‘I hate war.’
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    I wondered, but oddly without jealousy, whether Phuong was at the flat
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    We were all expendable
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    You are crazy.’

    ‘Oh no. The only real danger was running aground.’

    ‘Or being shot up by a naval patrol, or a French plane. Or having your throat cut by the Vietminh.’

    He laughed shyly. ‘Well, I’m here anyway,’ he said.

    ‘Why?’
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    I laughed. I couldn’t help it. He was so unexpected and serious. I said, ‘Couldn’t you have waited till I got back? I shall be in Saigon next week.’
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Suddenly I couldn’t bear his boyishness any more. I said, ‘I don’t care that for her interests. You can have her interests. I only want her body. I want her in bed with me. I’d rather ruin her and sleep with her than, than … look after her damned interests.’

    He said, ‘Oh,’ in a weak voice, in the dark
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