Author: John Lawton

Cites

• Etty Hillesum (1)
  • IN: A Lily of the Field (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would love to be like the lilies of the field. Someone who managed to read this age correctly would surely have learned just this: to be like a lily of the field.
    FROM: Etty: A Diary, (1981), Book, Netherlands
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1)
  • IN: Then We Take Berlin (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...Never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little... at any rate never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on...
    FROM: Vanity Fair, (1847), NULL, UK
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
  • IN: Then We Take Berlin (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wer spricht von Seigen> Uberstehen ist Alles.
    FROM: Requiem, fur Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth, (1908), NULL, Bohemia/Austria
• Kay Boyle (1)
  • IN: Then We Take Berlin (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The warriars are dead. The warriors died in two world wars. Those who remain are the barterers. They know the price of coffee and cocoa and sugar and flour in a defeated country.
    FROM: The Lovers of Gain, (1950), NULL, US
• Joe Flaherty (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A graceful generation that had to work for men wrapped up in their individual egos, a sin their flesh is not heir to.
    FROM: Managing Mailer, (1970), NULL, US
• I. F. Stone (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the best of a generation were being lost -- some among the hippies to drugs, some among the radicals to an almost hysterical frenzy of alienation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Abbie Hoffmann (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It was fun to have that sense of engagement when you jumped on the earth and the earth jumped back.
    FROM: NULL, (1989), NULL, US
• Norman Mailer (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It takes a long time for sentiments to collect into action, and often they never do... I wanted to make actions rather than effect sentiments.
    FROM: Paris Review Interview, (1964), Interview, US
• Lyndon Baines Johnson (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Worst of all, expansion is eroding the precious and time honoured values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference... once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.
    FROM: NULL, (1964), Speech, US
• William Eastlake (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You can't dig the moon Until You dig the earth.
    FROM: Whitey's on the Moon Now, (1969), Poem, US
• Paul McCartney (1)
  • IN: Sweet Sunday (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one was saved.
    FROM: Eleanor Rigby, (1966), Song, UK