William Batchelder Greene Quotes
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
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Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
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I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
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While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.
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Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
