Author: Karen Joy Fowler

Cites

• Jane Austen (1)
  • IN: The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Mary Ellen Pleasant (1)
  • IN: Sister Noon (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Words were invented so that lies could be told.
    FROM: NULL, (2001), Fictional, US
• Camille Flammarion (1)
  • IN: Sarah Canary (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You only comprehend things which you perceive. And as you persist in regarding your ideas of time and space as absolute, although they are only relative, and thence form a judgment on truths which are quite beyond your sphere, and which are imperceptible to your terrestial organism and faculties, I should not do a true service, my friend, in giving you fuller details of my ultra-terrestial observations...
    FROM: Lumen, (1873), NULL, France
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...Your experience as apes, gentlemen -- to the extent that you have something of that sort behind you -- cannot be more distant from you than mine is from me. But it tickles at the heels of everyone who walks here on earth, the small chimpanzee as well as the great Achilles.
    FROM: A Report for an Academy, (1917), Short story, Czech Republic