Author: Joy Williams

Cites

• Thomas A. Kempis (1)
  • IN: The Quick & the Dead (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And whatever is not God is nothing, and ought to be accounted as nothing.
    FROM: The Imitation of Christ, (1427), Book, Italy
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Quick & the Dead (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Toward a place where I could not find safety I went.
    FROM: Yaqui Deer Song, (None), Song, US
• Constantine Cavafy (1)
  • IN: State of Grace (1973) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ah! don’t you see Just as you’ve ruined your life in this One plot of ground you’ve ruined its worth Everywhere now — over the whole earth?
    FROM: The City, (1894), Poem, Egypt/Greece
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: Breaking and Entering (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then the strangest questions are asked, which no human being could answer: Why there is only one such animal; why I rather than anybody else should own it, whether there was ever an animal like it before and what would happen if it died, whether it feels lonely, why it has no children, what it is called, etc.
    FROM: A Crossbreed, (1931), Short story, Czech Republic
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Visiting Privilege (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye...
    FROM: Bible, I Corinthians 15:51-52, (100), Bible, NULL

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• Kathleen Alcott (1)
  • IN: Infinite home (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No man has ever died beside a sleeping dog.
    FROM: State of Grace, (1973), Novel, US