Author: Adam Thorpe

Cites

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1)
  • IN: The Rules of Perspective (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... no one who confines himself to the limits of duty ever goes so far as to venture, on his sole responsiblity, to act in the only way that makes it possible to score a direct hit on evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end have to do his duty by the devil too.
    FROM: After Ten Years, (1942), Book, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Rules of Perspective (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: World War II is estimated, rather uncertainly, to have cost between 35,000,000 and 60,000,000 lives. The U. S. S. R. has been reckoned to have lost 11,000,000 combatants and 7,000,000 civilians; Roland, 5,800,000 lives altogehter, including, however, some 3,200,000 of the 5,700,000 Jews put to death by the Nazis in the course of the war; Germany, 3,500,000 combatants dead and 780,000 civilianzs; China, 1,310,224 combatants ... with civilian losses dubiously estimated at 22,000,000; Japan, 1,300,000 combatants and 672,000 civilians; Yugoslavia, 305,000 and 1,200,000; the United Kingdom, 264,443 and 92,673; the United States, 292,131 and 6,000.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, (1974), Book, NULL
• La Fontaine, Jean de (1)
  • IN: Is This The Way You Said? (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Often you meet your destiny on the very path you took to avoid it.
    FROM: Book VIII (1678–1679), fable 16 (The Horoscope), (1678), Book, France
• Richard Jefferies (1)
  • IN: Flight (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility -- a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK