Author: Jayne Anne Phillips

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• E. A. Bartlett (1)
  • IN: Quiet Dell (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This book is intended to be of wholesome helpfulness to mankind, and not to engender morbid desire or taint human souls.
    FROM: Love Murders of Harry E. Powers (Beware of such Bluebeards), (1931), Book, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Quiet Dell (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (Special) -- In the backyard of the Eicher home at Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago, stands a little marker, with the inscription, "Graveyard for Animals," scribbled in the childish handwriting of Annabel Eicher, 9. There the Eicher children had buried a bird, playmates said.
    FROM: The Clarksburg Telegram, (1931), [NA], NULL
• Robert J. Dvorchak (1)
  • IN: Lark and Termite (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: GI's corrupted the native term han'guk saram, which means Korean, into the derisive slang "gook," which was indelicately applied to all Asians, even in later undeclared wars.
    FROM: Battle for Korea, (1993), Book, US
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: Lark and Termite (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
    FROM: The Sound and the Fury, (1929), Novel, US
• Lorenz and Rodgers, Richard Hart (1)
  • IN: Lark and Termite (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is your mouth a little weak When you open it to speak, are you smart?
    FROM: "My Funny Valentine", Babes in Arms, (1936), Song, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Shelter (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil . . . and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
    FROM: Revelation 20:1-3, (100), Bible, NULL
• Rilke (1)
  • IN: Shelter (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every angel is terrifying.
    FROM: Duino Elegies, (1923), Lyric, Bohemia/Austria
• Melvin B. Zisfein (1)
  • IN: Machine Dreams (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here is the story of flying, from the dreams of ancient Greece to the wonders of the present day, presented in brief, authoritative text and superb watercolor paintings. It is a fascinating story of people and ideas, of adventures and daring, and of flying machines.
    FROM: Flight, A Panorama of Aviation, (1981), Book, US
• Nikolas Yalouris (1)
  • IN: Machine Dreams (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Greeks believed that their heroic deed appeared before the living in the form of a horse.... The soul of the deceased was often depicted in horse-shaped.
    FROM: Pegasus: The Art of the Legend, (1977), Book, Greece
• Hesiod (1)
  • IN: Machine Dreams (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now he (Pegasus) flew away and left the earth, the mother of flocks, and came to the deathless gods: and he dwells in the house of Zeus and brings to wise Zeus the thunder and lightning.
    FROM: The Theogony, vv. 284-86, (700), Poem, Greece
• Laurie Anderson (1)
  • IN: Machine Dreams (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And the voice said: Well you don't know me, but I know you And I've got a message to give to you. Here come the planes So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come as you are, but pay as you go... They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
    FROM: O Superman, (1982), Song, US
• Van Morrison (1)
  • IN: Black Tickets (1979) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our souls were clean, but the grass didn't grow.
    FROM: "Streets of Arklow" from Veedon Fleece, (1974), Song, UK
• Alan Dugan (1)
  • IN: Fast Lanes (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have begun my freedom and it hurts.
    FROM: "Stability Before Departure," from Collected Poems, (2001), Poem, US