For peace, against war: literary selections
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Graham Greene: A hundred English Guernicas
Graham Greene: Letter On NATO Threat To Cuba
Graham Greene: None of us can hate any more – or love. You have to feel something to stop a war.
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Graham Greene
From The Confidential Agent (1939)
He carried the war in his heart: give me time, he thought, and I shall infect anything…I ought to wear a bell like the old lepers…
He had indeed brought the war with him: the infection was working already. He saw beyond the lounge – sitting with his back turned at the first table inside the restaurant – the other agent. His hand began to shake just as it always shook before an air raid…
It had not been an unexpected day: this was the atmosphere in which he had lived for two years. If he had found…
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