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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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I didn't want to be quick

I said, 'The tube's quicker.'

'I know, but I didn't want to be quick.'

She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her, to say more than the truth - that our affair would never end, that one day we should marry. I wouldn't have believed h…

—p.21 The End of the Affair The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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this is what hope feels like

I sat with the telephone receiver in my hand and I looked at hate like an ugly and foolish man whom one did not want to know. I dialled her number, I must have caught her before she had time to leave the telephone, and said, 'Sarah. Tomorrow's all right. I'd forgotten something. Same place. Same ti…

—p.20 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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how can I make a stranger see her

How can I make a stranger see her as she stopped in the hall at the foot of the stairs and turned to us? I have never been able to describe even my fictitious characters except by their actions. It has always seemed to me that in a novel the reader should be allowed to imagine a character in any wa…

—p.11 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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I see myself reflected too closely in other men

While Henry fetched the drinks I went into the lavatory. The walls were scrawled with phrases: 'Damn you, landlord, and your breasty wife.' 'To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.' I went quickly out again to the cheery paper streamers and the clink of glass. Sometimes I se…

—p.5 The End of the Affair (1) by Graham Greene
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an apparently old-fashioned novel of adultery

What the "subjective novel" lost, in Greene's polemical reading, was any sense of a necessary interplay between the character and the world around her: a world of moral judgment and evaluation, in which the "human act" has importance precisely to the degree to which one may be held accountable for …

—p.xviii Introduction (vii) missing author