Author: Jacob Riis

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• Juliette Mead (1)
  • IN: Healing Flynn (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know that it was not so much the blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/Denmark
• Peter Matthiessen (1)
  • IN: Shadow Country (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without so much a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/Denmark