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Topic: Graham Greene

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite activity(s):Going to the movies
Most admires:Ingrid Bergman
Favorite actor(s):Humphrey Bogart,  Spencer Tracy,  James Dean
Favorite movie(s):North by Northwest,  Vertigo,  Apocalypse Now
Favorite author(s):Graham Greene,  Ernest Hemingway,  Virginia Woolf
Favorite era(s):1940s,  1950s,  1930s
Favorite quote(s):"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
 
 
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student

We put on layers of clothes and sat in bed sipping hot chocolate and reading aloud from Graham Greene's Travels with my Aunt and feeling that life was grand.
It always reminded me of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter, where the narrator describes how the dilapitated buildings of a colonial African town turn heartbreakingly beautiful for five minutes at sundown - and back in England, everyone remembers those five minutes with aching nostalgia.
Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant

George Cukor's adaptation of Graham Greene's picaresque novel, starring Maggie Smith as the eccentric English aunt and Alec McCowen as her bank-clerk nephew.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Roger Pratt and Neil Jordan collaborated on the remake of Graham Greene's famous novel The End of the Affair.
Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer

Based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel, the central figure of The Quiet American is Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine), a world-weary Times foreign correspondent based in Saigon, where he has lived for the past two years with a young Vietnamese woman, Phuong.
Welles is Harry Lime in Graham Greene's unforgettable tale of guilt, disillusionment, corruption and betrayal.
Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer

No, Graham Greene's The Human Factor and Rudyard Kipling's Kim, among others) and nonfictional accounts of espionage, such as books about the case of double agent Aldrich Ames and a CIA report on the Bay of Pigs crisis.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Despite Graham Greene's wonderful performance as a drunk with a heart, one who convinces us that he loves his kid brother no matter what, there is little suspense and not a lot of development of the character of the one key woman in the drama, who functions as a love interest.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Greene's uncle Sir William Graham Greene helped to establish the Naval Intelligence Department, and his oldest brother, Herbert, served as a spy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1930s.
Based on Graham Greene's novel, the story, set in the 1950s, revolves around a cynical British journalist and opium addict (Michael Caine) who has spent 20 years in French Indochina (later Vietnam) and has an increasing resentment of American colonialism in the nation.
Graham Greene's story about a cynical British journalist and opium addict (Michael Caine) who has spent 20 years in French Indochina (later Vietnam), and finds himself increasingly resentful of American colonialism.
Mark Harris,
Priest

So it is, for example, not clear that one should read David Lodge's novels as illustrations of a Roman Catholic vision of the world in the way that, in contrast, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair has to be read as an illustration of his faith.
 
 
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