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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Another quote from the 1980s

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Václav Havel

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Topic
Modern life

Author

Václav Havel
Medium
Letter
Language
Czech
Time
1983 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.

Another quote about Success

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that.

Barack Obama

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Topic
Success in business Success American politics
Speaker
Barack Obama
Source
Speeches of Barack Obama
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
2012 2010s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Obama, Barack. Remarks at campaign appearance. 13 July 2012, Roanoke, VA, USA.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic
Inevitability of death

Author

Herman Melville
Source
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.