Author: Henry Adams

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• Dexter Palmer (1)
  • IN: The Dream of Perpetual Motion (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here opened another totally new education, which promised by far to be the most hazardous of all. The knife edge along which he must crawl, like Sir Lancelot in the twelfth century, divided two kingdoms of force which had nothing in common but attraction. They were as different as a magnet is from gravitation, supposing one knew what a magnet was, or gravitation, or love.
    FROM: The Education of Henry Adams, (1907), Book, US
• Lionel Shriver (1)
  • IN: Game Control (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The most dignified thing for a worm to do is to sit up an sit still.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US