Author: Jay McInerney

Cites

• Richard Hell (2)
  • IN: Bright, Precious Days (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every marriage is its own culture, and even within it, mystery is the environment.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Bright Precious Days (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every marriage is its own culture, and even within it, mystery is the environment.
    FROM: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, (2013), Book, US
• Robert Hass (1)
  • IN: Brightness Falls (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.
    FROM: "Meditation at Lagunitas", (1979), Poem, US
• Ernest Hemingway (2)
  • IN: Bright Lights, Big City (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked. 'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.'
    FROM: The Sun Also Rises, (1926), Novel, US
  • IN: Bright Lights Big City (1984) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
    FROM: The Sun Also Rises, (1926), Novel, US
• John Cheever (1)
  • IN: The Good Life (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In middle age there is mystery, there is mystification. The most I can make out of this hour is a kind of loneliness. Even the beauty of the physical world seems to crumble, yes, even love.
    FROM: The Journals of John Cheever, (1991), Book, US
• Ana Menendez (1)
  • IN: The Good Life (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cataclysmic events, whatever their outcome, are as rare and transporting as a great love. Bombings, revolutions, earthquakes, hurricanes, -- anyone who has passed through one and lived, if they are honest, will tell you that even in the depths of their fear there was an exhilaration such as had been missing from their lives until then.
    FROM: Loving Che, (2003), Novel, US
• Norman Mailer (1)
  • IN: The Last of the Savages (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...one is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiers-man in the Wild West of American night life, or else a Square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willy-nilly to conform if one is to succeed.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US