Author: Benjamin Markovits

Cites

• J. W. Polidori (1)
  • IN: Imposture (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He felt his fisted grip on the world being prised loose finger by finger until the last easing away seemed an almost welcome and deliberate release.
    FROM: The Physician, (1819), Book, UK
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: Childish Loves (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I could explain at length the real causes which have contributed to increase this perhaps natural temperament of mine -- this Melancholy which hath made me a bye-word -- nobody would wonder -- - but this is impossible without doing much mischief. - - I do not know what other men's lives have been - but I cannot conceive anything more strange than some of the earlier parts of mine - - I have written my memoirs - but omitted all the really consequential & important parts - from deference to the dead - to the living - and to those who must be both,
    FROM: Detached Thoughts, (1928), Book, UK