Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
“They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.”
“It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.”
“You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”
“They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being.”
“As long as nothing happens anything is possible...”
“There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.”
“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”
“A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.”
“You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”
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Book Keywords:
reality, nationality, love, observational, life, loyalty, absurd, war, countries, dream, politics
