Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.


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However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM
Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
COLLIER GRAHAM
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE
There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE
Good people are always so sure they're right.
BARBARA GRAHAM
The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
KATHARINE GRAHAM
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our m...
LINDSEY GRAHAM
I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That...
KAT GRAHAM
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT
I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for i...
KAT GRAHAM
I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN