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He prayed in his silence: O God, make me human, let me feel temptation. Save me from my indifference.
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote

from the sequestered innocence of 1962,
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
‘There’s only one prayer we need say for anyone dead.’ ‘So you’d say it for Stalin?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘And for Hitler?’ ‘There are degrees of evil, Sancho – and of good. We can try to discriminate between the living, but with the dead we can’t discriminate. They all have the same need of our prayer.’
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote
‘I have something to confess to you, father. Oh, not in the confessional. I’m not asking any forgiveness from that myth of yours or mine up there, only from you.’
Graham Greene • Monsignor Quixote
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws Of Power (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)

And who had need of his globes here?
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
‘Dear Thomas,’ he wrote, ‘I can’t begin to tell you how swell you were the other