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"You are a journalist. You know better than I do that we can't win. You know the road to Hanoi is cut and mined every night. You know we lose one class of Saint-Cyr every year. We were nearly beaten in 'fifty. De Lattre has given us two years of grace--that's all. But we are professionals; we have to go on fighting till the politicians tell us to stop. Probably they will get together and agree to the same peace that we could have had at the beginning, making nonsense of all these years."
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This is my third Graham Greene novel, and he's quickly becoming one of my favourite authors - when he sticks to what he does well. The Quiet American is a very rich novel, that does a lot in a short amount of time, it's reflective, morose, decaying, funny, absurd, naive, and tragic. There's so much good going on here from a writing stand point, and the care and attention Greene takes on his more philosophical thoughts are wonderful. Not quite the same sublime heights as The Power And The Glory,
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