Author: Barry Eisler

Cites

• Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: Graveyard of Memories (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: Journals IV A 164 (1843), (1843), Book, Denmark
• Ota Dokan (1)
  • IN: Hard Rain (2004) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Had I not known that I was dead already I would have mourned my loss of life.
    FROM: Last Words of Ota Dokan, scholar of military arts and poetry, (1486), Conversation, Japan
• Kaisho (1)
  • IN: Hard Rain (2004) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evening cherry blossoms: I slip the inkstone back into my kimono this one last time.
    FROM: Death Poem of the Poet Kaisho, (1914), Poem, Japan
• T. S. Eliot (2)
  • IN: Winner Take All (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
    FROM: Four Quartets, (1943), Poem, UK
  • IN: Rainfall (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman — But who is that on the other side of you?
    FROM: The Waste Land, (1922), Poem, UK
• Ukifune (1)
  • IN: Winner Take All (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I leave no trace behind in this fleeting world what then could you reproach?
    FROM: Death poem of Ukifune in the Genji Monogatari, (1008), Poem, Japan
• Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1)
  • IN: Redemption Games (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The way of the samurai is found in death.
    FROM: Hagakure, (1900), Book, Japan
• Louis XIV (1)
  • IN: Inside Out (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: L’état, c’est moi.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Simon Johnson (1)
  • IN: Inside Out (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of course, the United States is unique. And just as we have the world’s most advanced economy, military, and technology, we also have its most advanced oligarchy.
    FROM: The Atlantic, (2009), Article, US/England
• Evans Thomas (1)
  • IN: Inside Out (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By definition, establishments believe in propping up the existing order. Members of the ruling class have a vested interest in keeping things pretty much the way they are. Safeguarding the status quo, protecting traditional institutions, can be healthy and useful, stabilizing and reassuring.
    FROM: Newsweek, (2009), Article, US
• Abe Shosaburo (1)
  • IN: Rainfall (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the changing of the times, they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.
    FROM: on the Meiji-era samurai, (None), [NA], Japan
• Søren Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: Graveyard of Memories (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: Journals IV, (1843), Journal, Denmark
• Michel Foucault (1)
  • IN: The God's Eye View (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Panopticon must not be understood as a dream building: it is the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form.
    FROM: Discipline and Punishment: The Panopticon, (1975), Essay, France
• Julian Assange (1)
  • IN: The God's Eye View (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era… governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a god-like knowledge of every one of us.
    FROM: Interview with BBC Radio 4 Show, (2014), Interview, Australia
• Erich Mielke (1)
  • IN: The God's Eye View (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Comrades, I must tell you again: we must collect everything! Nothing can be missed!
    FROM: Erich Mielke, leader of East Germany’s Stasi, (1981), NULL, Germany