“Greene is a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony. There is conflict within him, and therefore he is liable to pursue conflict without.”
Like It Was, p.249
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English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist 1903–1990Related quotes
Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954), Ch. 2. The Age of Innocence
he had better quit.
Rex Stout
The New York Times, "Talk with Rex Stout"
Source: Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy (1971)
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 8, “The Importance of Saying No” (pp. 182-183)
“To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.”
Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
“A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.”
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11
Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. http://www.ingecenter.org/interviews/PeterShaffertext.htm