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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

Graham Greene

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