Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a… — Graham Greene · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir

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

1980

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Success and failure Success Failure

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

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Autobiography and memoir

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

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