Author: Graham Greene

Cites

• George Herbert (1)
  • IN: Our Man in Havana (1958) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: And the sad man is cock of all his jests
    FROM: The Church-Porch, (1633), Poem, UK
• Charlotte M. Yonge (1)
  • IN: The Ministry of Fear (1943) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Have they brought home the haunch?
    FROM: The Little Duke, (1854), NULL, UK
• Charles Péguy (1)
  • IN: The Heart of the Matter (1948) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le pécheur est au cœur même de chrétienté... Nul n'est aussi compétent que le pécheur en matière de chrétienté. Nul, si ce n'est le saint. ("The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity…. No one is as competent as the sinner in Christian matters. No one, unless it is the saint.")
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Leon Bloy (1)
  • IN: The End of the Affair (1951) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• A. H. Clough (1)
  • IN: The Quiet American (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I do not like being moved: for the will is excited; and action Is a most dangerous thing; I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We're so prone to these things, with our terrible notions of duty.
    FROM: Amours de Voyage, (1849), Poem, UK
• Byron (1)
  • IN: The Quiet American (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions.
    FROM: Don Juan, (1824), Poem, UK

Cited by

• David Shields (1)
  • IN: Reality Hunger (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When we are not sure, we are alive.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• David Lodge (1)
  • IN: Therapy (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Writing is a form of therapy
    FROM: Ways of Escape, (1980), Book, UK
• Magnus Flyte (1)
  • IN: City of Lost Dreams (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That's a nice girl, that. But she ought to go careful in Vienna. Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this.
    FROM: The Third Man, (1949), Film, UK
• Robert Silverberg (1)
  • IN: Kingdoms of the Wall (1992) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And yet all the time, below the fear and the irritation, one was aware of a curious lightness and freedom... one was happy all the same; one had crossed the boundary into country really strange; surely one had gone deep this time.
    FROM: Journey Without Maps, (1936), Book, UK
• Denis Johnson (1)
  • IN: Angels (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: and to those who have shared their experience, strength, and hope I accused her as though her prayers had really worked the change: What did I do to you that you had to condemn me to life?
    FROM: The End of the Affair, (1951), Novel, UK
• Thomas McGuane (1)
  • IN: Gallatin Canyon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To be a human being, one had to drink from the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.
    FROM: The Heart of the Matter, (1948), Novel, UK
• Mary Lou Kirwin (1)
  • IN: Death Overdue (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One never knows when the blow may fall.
    FROM: The Third Man, (1950), Novel, UK
• Liz Jensen (1)
  • IN: The Uninvited (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    FROM: The Power and the Glory, (1940), Novel, UK
• S. P. Hozy (1)
  • IN: A Cold Season in Shanghai (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
    FROM: The Heart of the Matter, (1948), Novel, UK
• Ed Gorman (1)
  • IN: The Day The Music Died (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He wasn’t really happy; he was only watching happiness from close to instead of from far away.
    FROM: The Basement Room, (1936), Book, UK
• Leanne Shapton (1)
  • IN: Important artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion, and jewelry (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "That ashtray stood beside the bed. On the lady's side." "I'll certainly treasure the memento," I said. "If ashtrays could speak, sir." "Indeed, yes."
    FROM: The End of the Affair, (1951), Novel, UK
• Ken Follett (1)
  • IN: The Man From St. Petersburg (1982) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
    FROM: The Ministry of Fear, (1943), Novel, US
• Nick McDonell (1)
  • IN: An Expensive Education (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Did you believe it?" "Not all of it. They haven't left us much to believe, have they? -- even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being." "Any human being?"
    FROM: Our Man in Havana, (1958), NULL, UK
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: Field Grey (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't like Ike.
    FROM: The Quiet American, (1955), Novel, UK
• Jon Fasman (1)
  • IN: The Geographer's Library (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I find myself always torn between two beliefs: the belief that life should be better than it is and the belief that when it appears better it really is worse.
    FROM: Journey Without Maps, (1936), Book, UK
• Amanda Coe (1)
  • IN: What They Do in the Dark (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There were terrors, too, of course, but they would have been terrors at any age. I distinguish between terror and fear. From terror one escapes screaming, but fear has an odd seduction. Fear and the sense of sex are linked in secret conspiracy, but terror is a sickness like hate.
    FROM: A Sort of Life, (1971), Book, UK
• Jon Bilbao (1)
  • IN: Still the Same Man (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.
    FROM: The Third Man, (1950), Novel, UK
• Charmaine Craig (1)
  • IN: Miss Burma (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look at the history of Burma. We go and invade the country: the local tribes support us: we are victorious: but like you Americans we weren't colonialists in those days. Oh no, we made peace with the king and we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.
    FROM: The Quiet American, (1955), Novel, UK
• Tim Finch (2)
  • IN: The House of Journalists (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To experience exile a man doesn't necessarily have to leave his country. The sense of banishment can be felt on one's own hearthstone.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Edith Wharton (1)
  • IN: The Ghost-Feeler (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What gives a ghost story its thrill? First I think its physical sense and, secondly, a moral twist.
    FROM: The Spectator, (1937), NULL, UK
• Julia Keller (1)
  • IN: Last Ragged Breath (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    FROM: The Power and the Glory, (1940), Novel, UK