Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
"Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling."
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"Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling."
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
"Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition."
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
"New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one."
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
"Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow," Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet."
Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt
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