Author: Noel Hynd

Cites

• Vladimir Putin (1)
  • IN: Countdown in Cairo (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
    FROM: NULL, (2005), Interview, Russia
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Countdown in Cairo (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware: Some liars tell the truth!
    FROM: Ancient Arab proverb, (None), Proverb, Arab
  • IN: Conspiracy in Kiev (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
    FROM: Unknown Russian diplomat, (None), [NA], Russia
• Dashiell Hammett (1)
  • IN: Midnight In Madrid (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Then the bird doesn’t belong to any of you?” Spade asked. “Belong?” the fat man said jovially. “Well, sir, you might say it belonged to the King of Spain, but…an article of that value that has passed from hand to hand…is clearly the property of whoever can get a hold of it.”
    FROM: The Maltese Falcon, (1930), Novel, US
• Cervantes (1)
  • IN: Midnight In Madrid (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
    FROM: Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain
• Miguel Barnet (1)
  • IN: Hostage in Havana (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Havana traps you. A Cuban woman seems to walk on air, not on the pavement. A Cuban man the same. We are gifted with fleeting happiness. We don’t expect a death or an accident either. That’s why people are so emotional and cry and shout and stamp their feet if something happens that isn’t part of the daily routine.
    FROM: Rachel’s Song, (1969), Novel, Cuba
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Flowers From Berlin (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We know of new methods of attack; the Trojan Horse, the Fifth. Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the actors in this new tragedy.
    FROM: Franklin D. Roosevelt during fireside chat to the American people, May 26, 1940, (1940), Conversation, US
• John Gunther (1)
  • IN: Flowers From Berlin (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We Americans have always been blessed with great leaders at crucial times. Washington at our birth. Jefferson at our first age of crisis. Lincoln at the Civil War and Wilson for the first world war. And then Roosevelt. What if there had been no Roosevelt?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US