Quote #22
But the great moment was over - here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection - all the enthusiasm had been spent.
More from Graham Greene
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- Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.
- When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity- that was a quality God's image carried with it.
- Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.