Author: John Burnside

Cites

• Charles Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujour le produit d'un art.
    FROM: Le Peintre de la vie moderne, (1863), Essay, France
• Robert Penn Warren (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
    FROM: All The King's Men, (1946), Novel, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
    FROM: Ezekiel 8:12, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Bill Ayers (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But part of it is, yes, it's easy to get lost in America.
    FROM: NULL, (2004), Interview, US
• Gaston Bachelard (1)
  • IN: Something Like Happy (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Il n'y a pas de nautonier de bonheur.
    FROM: L'eau et les rêves, (1942), Book, France

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• Ashley Hay (1)
  • IN: A Hundred Small Lessons (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... the people we were who said or omitted to say the appropriate words ... The shapes we mistake for love ... the shapes we mistake for ourselves at the edge of the water.
    FROM: III De libero arbitrio, (395), Book, NULL