Author: John Crowley

Cites

• Flora Thompson (1)
  • IN: Little, Big (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A little later, remembering man’s earthly origin, ‘dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return,’ they liked to fancy themselves bubbles of earth. When alone in the fields, with no one to see them, they would hop, skip and jump, touching the ground as lightly as possible and crying ‘We are bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth!’
    FROM: Lark Rise, (1939), Book, UK
• G. K. Chesterton (1)
  • IN: Little, Big (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men are men, but Man is a woman.
    FROM: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, (1904), Novel, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Beasts (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dullness would torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf… What beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast?
    FROM: Timon of Athens, IV, iii, (1623), Play, UK