Author: H. L. Mencken

Cited by

• Laura Lippman (2)
  • IN: The Sugar House (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Baltimorean is not merely John Doe, an isolated individual of Homo sapiens, exactly like every other John Doe. He is John Doe of a certain place-of Baltimore, of a definite home in Baltimore. It was not by accident that all the peoples of the Western world, very early in their history, began distinguishing their best men by adding of this or that place to their names.
    FROM: Evening Sun, February 16, 1925, (1925), Article, US
  • IN: Baltimore Blues (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
    FROM: A Book of Burlesques, (1856), NULL, US
• Elizabeth L. Silver (1)
  • IN: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Injustice is relatively easy to hear; what stings is justice.
    FROM: Prejudices, (1927), Book, US
• Matt Ruff (1)
  • IN: Bad Monkeys (2007) Fiction, Psychological Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Conscience: the inner voice that warns us someone may be looking.
    FROM: A Mencken Chrestomathy, (1949), Book, US
• Brad Listi (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Chris Belden (1)
  • IN: Shriver (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A writer is always admired most, not by those who have read him, but by those who have merely heard of him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US