Author: David Lodge

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• NULL (3)
  • IN: A Man of Parts (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Parts PLURAL NOUN 1. Personal abilities or talents: a man of many parts. 2. short for private parts.
    FROM: Collins English Dictionary, (1979), Definition, UK
  • IN: Therapy (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Therapy. The treatment of physical, mental or social disorders of disease
    FROM: Dictionary, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Deaf Sentence (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: entence noun. Middle English 1. 2b. 5. 7...
    FROM: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, (1993), Definition, UK
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: A Man of Parts (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He could imagine as existing, as waiting for him, he knew not where, a completeness of understanding, a perfection of response, that would reach all the gamut of his feelings and sensations from the most poetical to the most entirely physical, a beauty of relationship so transfiguring that not only would she—it went without saying that this completion was a woman—be perfectly beautiful in its light but, what was manifestly more incredible, that he too would be perfectly beautiful and quite at his ease.... In her presence there could be no self-reproaches, no lapses, no limitations, nothing but happiness and the happiest activities.... To such a persuasion half the imaginative people in the world succumb as readily and naturally as ducklings take to water. They do not doubt its truth any more than a thirsty camel doubts that presently it will come to a spring. This persuasion is as foolish as though a camel hoped that some day it would drink from such a spring that it would never thirst again.
    FROM: Mr Britling Sees It Through, (1916), Novel, UK
• H.G. Wells (1)
  • IN: A Man of Parts (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A young mind is like a green field and full of possibilies, but an old mind becomes more and more like a cemetery crowded up with memories.
    FROM: Looseleaf Diary, (1942), Journal, UK
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life imitates art.
    FROM: The Decay of Lying, (1891), Essay, Ireland
• Dr. Johnson, Samuel (1)
  • IN: The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I could be a Papist if I could, I have fear enough, but an obstinate rationality prevents me.
    FROM: NULL, (1784), Conversation, UK
• Horace (1)
  • IN: Small World (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt
    FROM: Epistles, (-14), Book, Greece
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: Small World (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a writer calls his work a Romance...
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (1851), Book, US
• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: Small World (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hush! Caution! Echoland!
    FROM: Finnegan's Wake, (1939), Novel, Ireland
• George Eliot (1)
  • IN: Nice Work (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Upon the midlands now the industrious muse doth fall, The shires which we the heart of England well may call. DRAYMAN: Poly-Olbion
    FROM: Epigraph to Felix Holt the Radical, (1866), Epigraph, UK
• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: Nice Work (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy...
    FROM: Sybil; or, the Two Nations, (1845), Novel, UK
• Christian - uncle of Soren Kierkegaard Lund (1)
  • IN: Therapy (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You know what, Soren? There’s nothing the matter with you but your silly habit of holding yourself round- shouldered. Just straighten your back and stand up and your sickness will be over
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Denmark
• Graham Greene (1)
  • IN: Therapy (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Writing is a form of therapy
    FROM: Ways of Escape, (1980), Book, UK
• Henry James (1)
  • IN: Author, Author (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art
    FROM: The Middle Years, (1893), Short story, UK
• Felix Moscheles (1)
  • IN: Author, Author (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who was to be lucky and who to be rich, Who’d get to the top of the tree
    FROM: In Bohemia with Du Maurier, (1896), Book, UK
• Hans Kung (1)
  • IN: How Far Can You Go? (1980) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What can we know? Why is there anything at all? Why not nothing? What ought we to do? Why do what we do? Why and to whom are we finally responsible? What may we hope? Why are we here? What is it all about? What will give us courage for life and what courage for death?
    FROM: On Being a Christian, (1974), Book, Switzerland