Author: Frederick Exley

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• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: A Fan's Notes (1968) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame; which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
    FROM: Fanshawe, (1828), Novel, US
• Dylan Thomas (1)
  • IN: A Fan's Notes (1968) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: All Wales is like this. I have a friend who writes long and entirely unprintable verses beginning, "What are you, Wales, but a tired old bitch?" and, "Wales my country, Wales my sow."
    FROM: Letter to Pamela Hansford Johnson, (None), Letter, NULL

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• John Niven (1)
  • IN: The Amateur (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He rallied, my tears being in unsurpassably bad taste, and said, "Look here, it's only a game." Trying to speak softly so the children wouldn't hear, I said, "Fuck you!"
    FROM: A Fan's Notes, (1968), Novel, US