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The Human Factor by Graham Greene
4.0

"'Harry,' she called over his shoulder, 'Dicky' and then 'Where's Dodo? Is he lost?' Nobody called Daintry by his first name because nobody knew it. With a sense of loneliness, he watched the graceful elongated figure of his hostess limp down the stone steps to greet 'Harry' with a kiss on both cheeks. Daintry went on alone into the dining room where the drinks stood waiting on the buffet."

"Silence fell like an old-fashioned smog, separating them from each other. Neither of them could see the pavement; they had to feel their way with a hand stretched out."

"Americans are just as ignorant of Africa as they were of Asia--except of course through novelists like Hemingway. He would go off on a month's safari arranged by a travel agency and write about white hunters and shooting lions--the poor half-starve brutes reserved for white tourists."

"She would have exchanged this Sussex town with its liberal inhabitants who treated her with such kindly courtesy even for Soweto. Courtesy could be a barrier more than a blow. It wasn't courtesy one wanted to live with--it was love."