Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.


Graham Greene

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How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bel...
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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a...
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PHIL KLAY
The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
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JAMES D. WATSON
Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
IVICA DACIC
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ALAN FURST
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
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ELVIS MITCHELL
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
My thoughts just now are with Graham. He has lost his job, and that was harsh. I feel strongly about...
JIM DUFFY
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily c...
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
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He who has not lost his head over some things has no head to lose
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
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Graham hyper-extended his knee and it has ended up a bit sore. There is no structural damage but we ...
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
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For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ...
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning i...
JANNE TELLER
He has maintained his innocence.
JOE WARREN
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...
GARY L. FRANCIONE
I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to...
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In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expe...
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN
Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
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The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT
The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chic...
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I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many peop...
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A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
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Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
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I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b...
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Greene played like a monster tonight.
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The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.
MECIUS
The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line th...
STEVE GLEASON
No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow...
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We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. ...
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramopho...
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This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature,...
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Mr. Graham, your honor, stands on his presumption of innocence and rests, I decided the best way to ...
DAN COGDELL
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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Ignorance is learned and innocence is lost, but...not forgotten.
JEANNE YOUNG
There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he ha...
A. P. GOUTHEY
There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has...
A. P. GOUTHEY
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
HENRY ADAMS
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull ...
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Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the m...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
CLINT EASTWOOD
The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.
JOHN CURTIN
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the count...
GLENN GREENWALD
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...
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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don'...
T. S. ELIOT
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't...
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
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Teacher is not a leper
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Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king...
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I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instin...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the min...
ANN RADCLIFFE
I will never understand why the truth, a thing everyone claims to want, is treated like a leper.
BOBBY W. MILLER
I feel violated. Like there is no safety around, no guarantees that anything you do ethically or hon...
IGNACIO RAMIREZ
Toronto has finally lost its innocence. I think we're going to feel this day for a long time to come...
SAVAS KYRIACOU
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
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There is no pain greater than a lover who just got heartbroken and a mother who has lost her child.
OLASOT
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
GRAHAM GREENE
My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the ...
GRAHAM GREENE
If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I...
GRAHAM GREENE
The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
GRAHAM GREENE
They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ...
GRAHAM GREENE
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s...
GRAHAM GREENE
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
GRAHAM
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE
We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
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