Author: Caleb Carr

Cites

• Chip and Heath, Dan Heath (1)
  • IN: Surrender, New York (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us... Reversing the process is as difficult as un-ringing a bell. You can't unlearn what you already know. There are, in fact, only two ways to beat the Curse of Knowledge reliably. The first is not to learn anything. The second is to take your ideas and transform them.
    FROM: Made to Stick, (2007), Book, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Surrender, New York (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:18, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Theodore Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: The Angel of Darkness (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not having been in the dark house, but having left it, that counts.
    FROM: From a 1916 letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1916), Letter, US
• William James (1)
  • IN: The Alienist (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our mind.
    FROM: The Principles of Psychology, (1890), Book, NULL
• Verdi (1)
  • IN: The Alienist (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: These bloody thoughts, from what are they born?
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), NULL, NULL