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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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