Brian Moore Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
August 25, 1921 – January, 11, 1999.

Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.

Also known as Screenwriter

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

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- Up
- World
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

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- Long
- Country
- Journey

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

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- Work
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

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- People
- Believe
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

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- People
After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.

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- Time
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

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And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

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