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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
ELLEN HOPKINS Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil lik...
JOHN WYCLIFFE For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the...
ANONYMOUS Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
VANNA BONTA He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.
THOMAS HARDY They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor au...
AMOS GILAD When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our cou...
PATRICK CAMPBELL 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
BUDDHA BUDDHA Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
BUDDHA Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I have neither been there nor done that
NANCY CARTWRIGHT I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
AARON SORKIN I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred...
SAVITRI DEVI Mature love is like mature infinity: there is no such thing!
RENé FRIEDRICH Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY There is no hurting anyone, neither in love nor in friendship.
APURVA GAGLANI My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius....
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius....
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...
BARBRA STREISAND If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
ELBERT HUBBARD Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, ...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That...
JOSEPH CONRAD Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.
AMIT KALANTRI Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
WILLIAM COWPER Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death...
D.H. LAWRENCE I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither...
SAVITRI DEVI The two sisters were connected by neither love nor mutual affinity but by a very small bathroom that...
ANN PATCHETT There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.
VOLTAIRE Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.
GAYLE FORMAN Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We dri...
MAXIM GORKY French and Palestinian doctors who treated the martyred brother found that medicine could not find t...
AHMED QUREIA He could neither read faces nor books properly, because since childhood he was always on Facebook
DR HITESH C SHETH We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despis...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Greene played like a monster tonight.
ERIC KING Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
JEAN BAPTISTE LACORDAIRE Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or...
ANONYMOUS The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason...
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANDSDOWNE That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, ...
CHARLES INGLIS These are neither heroes nor martyrs nor saints.
CHERYL KEEN When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
HAILEE STEINFELD God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanag...
ADAM HAMILTON We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves
MAY LAMBERTON BECKER Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the glob...
ROBERT S. MCNAMARA Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.
MICHAEL ROMKEY Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Neither wail nor weep.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Neither compares nor competes.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Neither mislead nor misguide.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Travel is a lot like love.
ALAIN DE BOTTON Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell
EDWARD ABBEY Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell...
EDWARD ABBEY It's a much more attractive market than the U.S. -- the growth of Internet commerce is less mature a...
JEFF BOYD It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
ARAVIND ADIGA 'Tis neither here nor there.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither lose heart nor hope.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am neither for this nor for that. I would like you to become so capable that you can remain in the...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Neither I nor the governor can make a statement.
ANTONIO FAZIO That is neither particularly bad nor is it particularly good.
DAVID LENZE I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.
DAVID RAKOFF I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
ELIA KAZAN I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
CALVIN KLEIN To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
WILLIS POLK Some of the South Greene players were saying they'd never seen a press like ours before. It really g...
JAMAR WALKER Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaz...
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GRAHAM GREENE He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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GRAHAM GREENE When we are not sure, we are alive.
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GRAHAM GREENE Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE ...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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GRAHAM GREENE Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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GRAHAM GREENE You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...
GRAHAM GREENE You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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GRAHAM GREENE Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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GRAHAM GREENE No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
GRAHAM GREENE A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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GRAHAM GREENE Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people...
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GRAHAM GREENE This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.
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GRAHAM GREENE What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?
GRAHAM GREENE It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [.....
GRAHAM GREENE All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape l...
GRAHAM GREENE If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached wh...
GRAHAM GREENE It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the c...
GRAHAM GREENE What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done,...
GRAHAM GREENE Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on ...
GRAHAM GREENE Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six mo...
GRAHAM GREENE He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
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GRAHAM GREENE It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried ou...
GRAHAM GREENE They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dan...
GRAHAM GREENE Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'
Ah, but one ca...
GRAHAM GREENE A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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GRAHAM GREENE We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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GRAHAM GREENE Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute sil...
GRAHAM GREENE He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. ...
GRAHAM GREENE There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every...
GRAHAM GREENE We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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GRAHAM GREENE What will we care for the why and the wherefore?
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GRAHAM GREENE I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
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GRAHAM GREENE He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
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GRAHAM GREENE The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to ever...
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GRAHAM GREENE And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of m...
GRAHAM GREENE Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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GRAHAM GREENE So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping...
GRAHAM GREENE Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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GRAHAM GREENE Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the fla...
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GRAHAM GREENE Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more t...
GRAHAM GREENE But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of...
GRAHAM GREENE I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an ...
GRAHAM GREENE I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.
GRAHAM GREENE We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, te...
GRAHAM GREENE I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
GRAHAM GREENE There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a...
GRAHAM GREENE Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?
GRAHAM GREENE You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
GRAHAM GREENE Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
GRAHAM GREENE 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.
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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.
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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.
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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