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Love's a western word..we use it...to cover up an obsession

I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene    THE QUIET AMERICAN

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Graham Greene  THE QUIET AMERICAN

...he had a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. Graham Greene  THE QUIET AMERICAN