Author: Nadine Gordimer

Cites

• Leo Tolstoy (1)
  • IN: No Time Like the Present (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: History has to do with manifestations of human freedom in connection with the external world, with time, and with dependence upon causes.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Keorapetse Kgositsile (1)
  • IN: No Time Like the Present (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Though the present remains A dangerous place to live, Cynicism would be a reckless luxury.
    FROM: Wounded Dreams, (2012), NULL, South-Africa
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: My Son's Story (1990) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You had a Father, let your son say so.
    FROM: Sonnet 13, (1609), Poem, UK
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: The Lying Days (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying ways of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.
    FROM: The Coming of Wisdom with Time, (1916), Poem, Ireland
• Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1)
  • IN: A Guest of Honour (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An honourable man will end by not knowing where to live.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1)
  • IN: A Guest of Honour (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Many will call me an adventurer -- and that I am, only of a different sort -- one of those who risks his skin to prove his plattiudes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Argentina
• Antonio Gramsci (1)
  • IN: July's People (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
    FROM: Prison Notebooks, (1947), Book, Italy
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Some Are Born to Sweet Delight (1991) Fiction, Short Story, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Some are Born to sweet delight, Some are Born to Endless Night.
    FROM: Auguries of Innocence, (1863), Poem, UK
• Amos Oz (1)
  • IN: The House Gun (1998) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The crime is the punishment.
    FROM: Fima, (1991), Book, Israel
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: None to Accompany Me (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
    FROM: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2, (1927), Novel, France
• Bashō (1)
  • IN: None to Accompany Me (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: None to accompany me on this path: Nightfall in Autumn.
    FROM: NULL, (1650), Poem, Japan
• NULL (1)
  • IN: A Sport of Nature (1987) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lusus naturae -- Sport of Nature. A plant, animal, etc., which exhibits abnormal variation or a departure from the parent stock or type... a spontaneous mutation; a new variety produced in this way.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• William Plomer (1)
  • IN: The Pickup (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let us go to another country... The rest is understood Just say the word.
    FROM: "Let Us Go" or "Another Country", (1936), Poem, South-Africa/England
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Get a Life (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O what authority gives Existence its surprise?
    FROM: "The Sea and the Mirror", (1944), Poem, US/England
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1)
  • IN: Burger's Daughter (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am the place in which something has occurred.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France

Cited by

• Marcus Sakey (1)
  • IN: The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no future without an identity to claim it, or to be obligated to it. There are no caging norms. In its very precariousness the state is pure and free.
    FROM: The Pickup, (2001), Novel, South-African