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My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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