Author: Jane Smiley

Cites

• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: Ten Days in the Hills (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I thought that I had arrived, like the Caliph in the Arabian Nights, in the nick of time to rescue a man who was being beaten, and in fact it was a different tale from the Arabian Nights which I saw enacted before me, the one in which a woman who has been turned into a dog willingly submits to being beaten in order to recover her former shape.
    FROM: Time Regained, (1927), Novel, France
• Richard Pevear (1)
  • IN: Ten Days in the Hills (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gogol once boasted of Dead Souls: "All Russia will appear in it," but later confessed that he had made it all up.
    FROM: Introduction to Anton Chekhov: The Complete Short Novels, (2005), Book, US
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1)
  • IN: Ten Days in the Hills (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But a little after nones, they all went and refreshed their faces in cool water before assembling, at the queen's request, on the lawn near the fountain, where, having seated themselves in the customary manner, they began to await their turn to tell a story on the topic the queen had proposed.
    FROM: The Decameron, (1353), Book, Italy
• John H. Wallace (1)
  • IN: Horse Heaven (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In no other department of human knowledge has there been such a universal and persistent habit of misrepresenting the truth of history as in matters relating to the horse.
    FROM: The Horse in America, (None), Book, US
• Somerville and Ross (1)
  • IN: Horse Heaven (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I recognized with despair that I was about to be compelled to buy a horse.
    FROM: Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., (None), NULL, Ireland/England
• Dick Christian (1)
  • IN: Horse Heaven (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I never heard of a great thing done yet but it was done by a thorough-bred horse.
    FROM: NULL, (1825), NULL, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Horse Heaven (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Runs all distances from 1,400 to 2,000 meters. Possible aversion to heavy going. Big galloper. Lots of drive, easy to manage, very much a racehorse. On the rise, and limits still unknown.
    FROM: Encyclopedia des Courses, (1984), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Greenlanders (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Afterwards they will find the chessman, marvelous and golden in the grass, just where the ancient gods had dropped them.
    FROM: "The Sayings of the Prophetess", (None), NULL, NULL
• Rose Wilder Lane (1)
  • IN: Private Life (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In those days all stories ended with the wedding.
    FROM: Old Home Town, (1935), NULL, US
• Claude Levi-Strauss (1)
  • IN: At Paradise Gate (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. I am subject to a double infirmity: all that I perceive offends me, and I constantly reproach myself for not seeing as much as I should.
    FROM: Tristes Tropiques, (1955), NULL, Belgium/France