Graham Greene Quotes

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Graham Greene

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

Topics

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Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

Steve Bannon

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I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

Tory Burch

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Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye

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I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Michel Houellebecq

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I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.

Michael Moriarty

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It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

Dominique Moceanu

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My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Diablo Cody

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A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brittany Howard

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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

Anne Rice

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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

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If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Shania Twain

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