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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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