Author: Harry Matthews

Cites

• Hippocrates (1)
  • IN: Tlooth (1966) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is a mistake to regard one disease as more divine than another, since all is human and all divine.
    FROM: On the Sacred Disease, (-400), Book, Greece
• Saint Augustine (1)
  • IN: My Life in CIA (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Certainly -- and I say this fearlessly and from my heart -- if I had to write with such vast authority I should prefer so to write that my words should mean whatever truth anyone would find upon these matters, rather than express one true meaning so clearly as to exclude all others, though these contain no falsehoods to offend me.
    FROM: Confessinos, (400), Book, Italy
• NULL (1)
  • IN: My Life in CIA (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I asked Patrick if there was anything particularly useful he could pass on to me "about the CIA." "The first thing to remember is that nobody connected with the Agency calls it the CIA. It's plain CIA.
    FROM: page 66, book, (400), Book, US
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Cigarettes (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Let me tell you a story on the subject," said the Linnet. "Is the story about me?" asked the Water-rat. "If so, I will listen to it, for I am extremely fond of fiction."
    FROM: The Devoted Friend, (1888), Novel, Ireland