Author: Jon Grimwood

Cites

• Professor Richard Dawkins (1)
  • IN: Pashazade (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead ...
    FROM: The Blind Watchmaker, (1986), Book, UK
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Effendi (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I saw three faces on one head. One was an angry red, another between pale and yellow, the last like those who live where the Nile rises . . .
    FROM: Inferno, Canto XXXIV, (1472), Poem, Italy
• Niccolo Machiavelli (1)
  • IN: Felaheen (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since the prince needs to play the animal he chooses among the beasts the fox and the lion, because the lion cannot protect itself from snares and the fox cannot protect itself from wolves. Therefore the prince must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten the wolves.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
  • IN: Felaheen (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a lion could speak, we could not understand him . . .
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Tiri (1)
  • IN: Felaheen (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unlike foxes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1)
  • IN: End of the World Blues (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: End of the world or not, peonies, azaleas and camellias will still produce beautiful flowers…
    FROM: Hagakure Kikigaki (Way of the Samurai(, (1900), Book, Japan