Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Topic

Success and failure Success Failure

Author

Graham Greene

Source

Ways of Escape

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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Time
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Author

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Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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