Author: Christopher Sorrentino

Cites

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: The Fugitives (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    FROM: The Scarlet Letter, (1850), Novel, US
• De Kooning, Willem (1)
  • IN: The Fugitives (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...there is a time in life when you just take a walk: And you walk in your own landscape.
    FROM: NULL, (1960), NULL, US/Netherlands
• Alexander Theroux (1)
  • IN: The Fugitives (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...the pictures we paint we are also being shown.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Aristophanes (1)
  • IN: The Fugitives (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the intense yearning which each of them has toward the other does not appear to be the desire of lover's intercourse, but of something else which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of which she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment.
    FROM: quoted in Symposium, (-370), Speech, Greece