The Grouch Reads

Graham Greene:

"It was impossible to conceive either of them as prey to untidy passion: they did not belong to rumpled sheets and the sweat of sex. Did they take deodorants to bed with them?"

"They were only war casualties," he said. "It was a pity, but you can't always hit your target. Anyway they died in the right cause..... In a way you could say they died for democracy." he said.

(The Quiet American, 1955)