{"id":60870,"date":"2013-10-02T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60870"},"modified":"2013-10-02T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T18:44:20","slug":"loser-takes-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/02\/loser-takes-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Loser Takes All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60871\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GrahamGreeneLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60871\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60871\" alt=\"1978 photo of author Graham Greene. Credit: Karsh.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GrahamGreeneLarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GrahamGreeneLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/GrahamGreeneLarge-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1978 photo of author Graham Greene. Credit: Karsh.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy business career lasted for a fortnight. They were a firm, I remember, of tobacco merchants. I was to go up to Leeds to learn the business and then go abroad. I couldn\u2019t stand my companion. He was an insufferable bore. We would play double noughts and crosses and he always won. What finally got me was when he said, \u2018We\u2019ll be able to play this on the way out, won\u2019t we?\u2019 I resigned immediately.\u201d\u00a0&mdash;Graham Greene,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5180\/the-art-of-fiction-no-3-graham-greene\" target=\"_blank\">the Art of Fiction No. 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy business career lasted for a fortnight. They were a firm, I remember, of tobacco merchants. I was to go up to Leeds to learn the business and then go abroad. I couldn\u2019t stand my companion. He was an insufferable bore. We would play double noughts and crosses and he always won. 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