#greene

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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.


Ross MacDonald


#collins #contemporary #contemporary society #could #deal

It was the hour of prayer. Black-beetles exploded against the walls like crackers. More than a dozen crawled over the tiles with injured wings. It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy — a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew.


Graham Greene


#power-glory #love

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.


William Cameron Forbes


#camp #death #director #greene #grim

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.


Patricia Highsmith


#because #dream #graham #greene #i

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.


Brian Greene


#explain #explains-a-lot #life #meaning-of-life #philosophy

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.


Patrick Ewing


#everybody #grass #greener #thinks

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.


Rachel Field


#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.


Tyson Gay


#fast #figure #greene #grew #guys

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.


Mary Whitehouse


#anyone #anything #country #gave #greene

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.


Billy Martin


#cigars #everything #greener #looks #nicer