Author: Nuruddin Farah

Cites

• Chí Minh Hồ (1)
  • IN: Sardines (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Being chained is a luxury. The chained have somewhere to sleep The unchained have not.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Vietnam
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Sardines (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All dies! And not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass The poet's forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone, Even truth itself decays, and, lo From truth's sad ashes pain and falsehood grow. All die! The workman dies, and, after him, the work.
    FROM: Pontoosuce, (1924), Poem, US
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1)
  • IN: Sardines (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In a famished town, as in a cheap restaurant, there is always a flavour of food in the air.
    FROM: Winter in Moscow, (1934), Novel, UK
• Marianne Moore (1)
  • IN: Sweet and Sour Milk (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Make my house your inn Inns are not residences.
    FROM: "Silence", (1924), Poem, US
• Mary Webster (1)
  • IN: Sweet and Sour Milk (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They hoist sails, the dying, they weigh anchor, they go out on a little breath, they do not care.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Patricia Beer (1)
  • IN: Close Sesame (1983) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Memory does not return Like experience, more like imagination How it would have been if, how it must
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Close Sesame (1983) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One should say before sleeping, "I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knees and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved."
    FROM: (Quoted in Anne Sexton), (1908), Essay, Ireland
• NULL (1)
  • IN: From a Crooked Rib (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: God created Woman from a crooked rib; and any one who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it.
    FROM: A Somali traditional proverb, (None), Proverb, Somali
• Michel Tournier (1)
  • IN: Links (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you don't want to be a monster, you've got to be like your fellow creatures, in conformity with the species, the image of your relations. Or else have progeny that make you the first link in the chain of a new species. For monsters do not reproduce.
    FROM: The Erl-King, (1970), Novel, France
• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: Links (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The individual leads in actual fact a double life, one in which he is an end to himself and another in which he is a link in a chain which he serves against his will or at least independently of his will.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Austria
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Links (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state!
    FROM: Auguries of Innocence, (1863), Poem, UK