Author: Nick Harkaway

Cites

• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: Tigerman (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My father had formed one of those close English friendships with him (the first adjective is perhaps excessive) that begin by excluding confidences and soon eliminate conversation.
    FROM: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, (1940), Short Story, Argentina
• Robert Warshow (1)
  • IN: Angelmaker (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The gangster is the man of the city, with the city's language and knowledge, with its queer and dishonest skills and its terrible daring, carrying his life in his hands like a placard, like a club.
    FROM: The Gangster as Tragic Hero, (1948), Essay, US

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• Dave Rudden (1)
  • IN: The Forever Court (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fire was our first magic, and our first science, and we have harnessed it hardly at all.
    FROM: The Gone-Away World, (2008), Novel, UK