Author: Donna Tartt

Cites

• Plato (1)
  • IN: The Secret History (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
    FROM: Republic, book ii, (-375), Book, Greece
• Friedrich Nietszche (1)
  • IN: The Secret History (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.
    FROM: Unzeitgemdsse Betrachtungen, (1873), NULL, Germany
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: The Goldfinch (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
    FROM: The Myth of Sisyphus, (1942), Essay, France
• Thomas Aquinas (1)
  • IN: The Little Friend (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
    FROM: SUMMA THEOLOGICA I, 1, 5 AD 1, (1485), Book, Italy
• Harry Houdini (1)
  • IN: The Little Friend (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ladies and gentlemen, I am now locked up in a handcuff that has taken a British mechanic five years to make. I do not know whether I am going to get out of it or not, but I can assure you I am going to do my best.
    FROM: London Hippodrome Saint Patrick's Day, 1904, (1904), NULL, US/Hungary

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• Asa Avdic (1)
  • IN: The Dying Game (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I looked at him. There was so much I wanted to ask him, so much I wanted to say; but somehow I knew there wasn't time and even if there was, that it was all, somehow, beside the point. "Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either."
    FROM: The Secret History, (1992), Novel, US