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In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.


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I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
PABLO PICASSO There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
RACHEL CUSK Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
PABLO PICASSO 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
MICHAEL KORDA I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
PABLO PICASSO Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
DOUG HORTON Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
PETER MCWILLIAMS There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even ...
VIK MUNIZ The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsig...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH You've got to tip an awful lot. It seems like we're tipping everybody.
ERIC REED It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, ...
MAGGIE SMITH On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.
SIMONE WEIL The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGAN In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatalit...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
WILLIAM BLAKE Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?
COLIN MOCHRIE Although there is little doubt that fundamentals are tight, there seems an awful lot of hype in the ...
WILLIAM ADAMS It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revu...
ADOLPH GREEN There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths ...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
DAVID MITCHELL There's really nothing wrong with what I do. I act. I create a character. And I bring an awful lot o...
JACK LORD Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTEN The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of rela...
HANS HOFMANN Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object a...
WILLIAM AMES One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate i...
VICTOR HUGO I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
HENNING MANKELL In any important relationship, we must always ask should we stay or leave. Perchance the correct ans...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. ...
GEORGE STEINER Leadership is an evergreen topic. There always seems to be strong demand in books for leadership.
JEFF KRAMES Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.
HAROLD BLOOM The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.
KATHRYN STOCKETT Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is noth...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is a...
CARLOS FUENTES For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Those who act in egotism, selfishness and conceit die; what do they gain?
ATHARVA VEDA Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, there...
GLEN DUNCAN When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
THOMAS CARLYLE I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High Sc...
DONALD MILLER It seems that Lorraine Greene has made more of a start at getting things done than anyone else. She ...
EDWARD SULLIVAN In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
ROBERT MCKEE The awful part of how they died is always a part of our thinking. We have a lot of good memories of ...
BERNICE JOHNSON There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER [Carr] seems to talk about the end of innovation, but there will always be innovation. Information t...
DOUG RICHARD Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across...
JULIE BURCHILL Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of...
VEDA UPANISHADS There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seem...
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in ...
JAMES RANDI I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination...
KATE THOMPSON There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies.
MICHAEL APPEL The flood risk has receded, but there is an awful lot of clearing up to do.
FRANZ MAERKI Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
MALCOLM BRADBURY Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
SALMAN RUSHDIE It really was an awful, awful environment,
JUSTIN HAWKINS When it seems there is no way out, always remember the morning will come
SUNDAY ADELAJA When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore s...
SCOUT CLOUD LEE Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...
BARBRA STREISAND There's an awful lot of fall merchandise still out there.
ANNE BROUWER Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitud...
KILROY J. OLDSTER There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA There are no numbers, there are very few deadlines and not an awful lot of ownership of these plans,...
BRIAN COULTON There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
FRED FRITH To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t...
PHILIP K. DICK It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE