Author: Claire Messud

Cites

• Machiavelli (1)
  • IN: The Woman Upstairs (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The Woman Upstairs (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a fresh, a third, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from oneself, the lover.
    FROM: Remembrance of Things Past, (1913), Novel, France
• Philip Roth (1)
  • IN: The Woman Upstairs (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fuck the laudable ideologies.
    FROM: Sabbath's Theater, (1995), Novel, US
• Elizabeth Bishop (1)
  • IN: When the World was Steady (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is it lack of imagination that makes us come to imagined places, not just stay at home? Or could Pascal have been not entirely right about just sitting quietly in one's room? Continent, city, country, society: the choice is never wide and never free. And here, or there... No. Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?
    FROM: "Questions of Travel", (1965), Poem, US
• Anthony Powell (1)
  • IN: The Emperor's Children (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else in life matters. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
    FROM: Books Do Furnish a Room, (1971), Novel, UK