Author: Dimitri Verhulst

Cites

• Jean Ray (1)
  • IN: Madame Verona Comes Down The Hill (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: My dog is old. When he is in pain, an imploring look comes into his eyes. I am his God. He doesn't know that behind the God that will save him, the one he beseeches, there is another God he cannot see. Is there another behind ours as well? The dog grovels at my feet. At whose feet must we grovel?
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Pierre Michon (1)
  • IN: The Misfortunates (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I was surprised that someone would devote a life to such things, to faking things and not quite succeding at it, and when one succeeds one only adds one ephemera to another, what one can't have to what one doesn't.
    FROM: Masters and Servants, (1990), Book, France
• Francisco Umbral (1)
  • IN: The Misfortunates (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Why do I no longer dream about my mother? Perhaps because I have written too much about her, even distributing her beautiful profile on the cover of a book. Without meaning to exorcise anything, I exorcized her presence. My mother wasn't bothering me, I summoned her up myself by writing so much about her, but I suspect that in the end I created a literary character -- complex, artistic, complicated -- and lost the real mother, the dead mother, as a result. I am the orphan of a dead mother because I wrote too much about her.
    FROM: A Creature of Distance, (None), Book, Spain