Author: Jennifer Egan

Cites

• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: Look at Me (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
    FROM: Ulysses, (1922), NULL, Ireland
• Ludwig Feuerbach (1)
  • IN: Invisible Circus (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the present age, which prefers the picture to the thing pictured, the copy to the original, imagination to reality, or the appearance to the essence... illusion alone is sacred to this age, but truth profane... so that the highest degree of illusion is to it the highest degree of sacredness.
    FROM: Preface to The Essence of Christianity 2nd edition, (1843), Book, Germany
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: Invisible Circus (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses -- past the headlands -- Into deep Eternity---...
    FROM: Exultation is the going, (1890), Poem, US
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, cotemporaneous with different years. The unknown element of the lives of other people is like that of nature, which each fresh scientific discovery merely reduces but does not abolish.
    FROM: In Search of Lost Time, (1927), Novel, France
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Manhattan Beach (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
    FROM: Moby-Dick, (1851), Novel, US