Author: Arthur Clarke
Cites
- Friar Marignolli (1)
- IN: The Fountains of Paradise (1979) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: From Paradise to Taprobane is forty leagues; there may be heard the sound of the Fountains of Paradise.
FROM: Traditional: reported by Friar Marignolli (A.D. 1335), (1335), NULL, Italy
- John Milton (1)
- IN: The Fountains of Paradise (1979) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: From India and the golden Chersoness
And utmost Indian Isle Taprobane…
FROM: Paradise Regained, Book IV, (1667), Poem, UK
- Virginia Woolf (1)
- IN: The Light of Other Days (2000) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things we have felt with great intensity have an experience independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them? …Instead of remembering here a scene and there a sound, I shall fit a plug into the wall; and listen in to the past…
FROM: Moments of Being, (1972), Book, UK
- Henri Poincaré (1)
- IN: The Light of Other Days (2000) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- Charles Caleb Colton (1)
- IN: Richter 10 (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
FROM: Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, (1822), Book, UK
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1)
- IN: Richter 10 (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
FROM: NULL, (1857), Essay, US
- Ernest Hemingway (1)
- IN: Imperial Earth (1975) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Remember them as they were-, and write them off.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- William Shakespeare (1)
- IN: Imperial Earth (1975) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For every man has business and desire.
FROM: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
Part I. Titan, (1603), Play, UK