Author: Justin Cartwright

Cites

• John Maynard Keynes (2)
  • IN: Other People's Money (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.
    FROM: General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, (1936), Book, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Lion Heart (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fiction: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people; 2. something that is invented or untrue. 3. belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• W. G. Sebald (1)
  • IN: Lion Heart (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If we view ourselves from a great height it is frightening to realise how little we know about our species, our purpose and our end.
    FROM: The Rings of Saturn, (1995), Novel, Germany
• Robert Hughes (1)
  • IN: Other People's Money (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Matisse's studio was a world within the world: a place of equilibrium that, for sixty continuous years, produced images of comfort, refuge, and balanced satisfaction. Nowhere in Matisse's work does one feel a trace of the alienation and conflict which modernism, the mirror of our century, has so often reflected. His paintings are the equivalent to that ideal place, sealed away from the assaults and erosions of history, that Baudelaire imagined in his poem 'L'Invitation au Voyage': Furniture gleaming with the sheen of years would grace our bedroom; the rarest flowers, mingling their aromas with faint gusts of amber, the painted ceilings, the fathomless mirrors, Eastern splendour. ... all would speak, in secret, to our souls, in its native language... There, everything is order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure...
    FROM: The Shock of the New, (1936), NULL, Australia