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This is no book for those who would turn delicate noses away from the gutters and sewers of life; but there is nothing that could give the faintest gratification to snickerers.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Times Jane Spence Southron New York Times 1938
You can say Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock is a crime novel, but it contains no mystery. It is the relationship between Pinkie and his mistress and the theological aspect that matter.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review P. D. James The Paris Review 1995

While still an Oxford undergraduate, he had repeatedly played Russian roulette, in search of a permanent holiday from the world. The world gets a grim report in his fiction. For Pinkie in Brighton Rock, “the world never moved: it lay there always, the ravaged and disputed territory between two eternities.”

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books John Updike New York Review of Books 1990