Morris West

Person · Open Library

Born

26 April 1916

Died

9 October 1999

Works

77

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Film & TV

Writing

Known for

• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1977-06-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

10

Total plays

94

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 31,144x

2. AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility

   · 2009 · cited 23,214x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,623x

4. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,641x

5. Society and the Adolescent Self-Image

   · 1965 · cited 15,358x

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Quotes

• “There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting —”
• “No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"”
• “Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!”
• “If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”
• “O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.”
• “I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

West

Gender

male

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

St Kilda

Place of death

Sydney

Occupation

novelist

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Catholicism

Notable work

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Image

Morris West.jpg

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