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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
Something
Adultery
World
Exists
Crime
Marriage
Politics
War
Money
Everything

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