Author: Daryl Gregory
Cites
- T. H. Huxley (1)
- IN: Afterparty (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
FROM: on Descarte's "Discourse on Method, (1870), NULL, UK
- Bible (4)
- IN: Afterparty (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables.
FROM: Mark 4:11, (100), Bible, NULL
- IN: In the Wheels (None) NULL, American
EPIGRAPH: And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of the amber, out of the midst of the fire… and this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man…. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
FROM: Ezekiel 1:4-5, 21, (-165), Bible, NULL
- IN: Afterpathy (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables.
FROM: Bible, Mark 4:11, (100), Bible, NULL
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
- IN: Harrison Squared (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
FROM: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, (1798), Poem, UK
- Shun Ryu Suzuki (2)
- IN: Second Person, Present Tense (None) NULL, American
EPIGRAPH: If you think, “I breathe,” the “I” is extra. There is no you to say “I.” What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale or when we exhale.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Japan
- Emo Philips (2)
- IN: Second Person, Present Tense (None) NULL, American
EPIGRAPH: I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Uri Geller (1)
- IN: Spoonbenders (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You'd think that whatever causes these things to happen doesn't want them to be proved.
FROM: quoted in The Geller Phenomenon, (1976), Book, UK/Israel
- Thomas Huxley (1)
- IN: Afterpathy (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
FROM: "On Descartes' Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth", (1870), Essay, UK