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Our Man in Havana 8Greene 9

 

[Wormold:] I wouldn't kill for my country. I wouldn't kill for capitalism or Communism or social democracy or the welfare state -- whose welfare?... If I love or if I hate, let me love or hate as an individual. I will not be 59200/5 in anyone's global war....

[Beatrice:] "I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations.... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?"
-- Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana An Entertainment (p.186, 189-190) Penguin, 1962.
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