Author: Lionel Shriver

Cites

• NULL (2)
  • IN: The post-birthday world (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody's perfect.
    FROM: "known fact", (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: Big Brother (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One in Three Would Trade Year of Life for Ideal Body
    FROM: Daily Telegraph Headline, (2011), Article, UK
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: So Much for That (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time is money
    FROM: Advice to a Young Tradesman, (1748), Book, US
• Conrad Black (1)
  • IN: The New Republic (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My experiences with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised... They have huge power, and many of them are extremely reckless.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: The New Republic (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
    FROM: Politics and the English Language, (1946), Essay, UK
• James Rickards (1)
  • IN: The Mandibles (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Collapse is a sudden, involuntary and chaotic form of simplification.
    FROM: Currency Wars, (2011), Book, US
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Ordinary Decent Criminals (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting that any other thing, with promise of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
    FROM: Islands in the Stream, (1970), Novel, US
• Erma Bombeck (1)
  • IN: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, US
• M. Forster, E. (1)
  • IN: Property: Stories Between Two Novellas (2018) Short Stories, American
    EPIGRAPH: I bought a wood [ . . . ]. It is not a large wood — it contains scarcely any trees, and it is intersected, blast it, by a public footpath. Still, it is the first property that I have owned, so it is right that other people should participate in my shame, and should ask themselves, in accents that will vary in horror, this very important question: What is the effect of property upon the character? [ . . . ] If you own things, what’s their effect on you? What’s the effect on me of my wood? In the first place, it makes me feel heavy. [ . . . ] In the second place, it makes me feel it ought to be larger.
    FROM: “My Wood”, (1926), Essay, UK
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1)
  • IN: A Perfectly Good Family (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A son could bear complacently the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive to despair.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Ted Tinling (1)
  • IN: Double Fault (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Rarely do you get something if you want it too much. There isn’t a tennis player in the world who can’t tell when an opponent is frightened.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Henry Adams (1)
  • IN: Game Control (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The most dignified thing for a worm to do is to sit up an sit still.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Dire Straits (1)
  • IN: Checker and the Derailleurs (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well I have tried to be meek And I have tried to be mild But I spat like a woman And sulked like a child… And I can still hear his laughter And I can still hear his song The man’s too big The man’s too strong
    FROM: “The Man’s Too Strong,” Brothers in Arms, (1985), Song, UK

Cited by

• Alison Moore (1)
  • IN: He Wants (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are meant to be hungry.
    FROM: Big Brother, (2013), Novel, US