Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hรดtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the รฉclairs stuffed with cream.
Graham GreeneThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
Graham GreeneMy passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
Graham GreeneWhen you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Graham Greene