Author: Paul Theroux

Cites

• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: The Lower River (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I said to him: "I've come -- but not for keeps. But who are you, become so horrible?" He answers: "Look. I am the one who weeps."
    FROM: The Inferno, (1472), Poem, Italy
• William Burroughs (1)
  • IN: Blinding Light (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A place where the unknown past and the emergent future meet in a vibrating soundless hum. Larval entities waiting for a live one.
    FROM: The Yage Letters, (1963), Book, US
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: My Other Life (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I do not know which of us has written this page.
    FROM: Borges and I, (1960), Short story, Argentina
• A. H. Clough (1)
  • IN: Saint Jack (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Action will furnish belief -- but will that belief be the true one?
    FROM: Amours de Voyage, (1862), Poem, UK
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: The Stranger at the Palazzo D'oro (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
    FROM: The Waste Land, (1922), Book, US
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Mother Land (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart.
    FROM: Remorse for Intemperate Speech, (1932), Speech, Ireland
• Jim Jones (1)
  • IN: Mother Land (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother, please. Mother, please, please, please. Don't -- don't do this. Don't do this. Lay down your life with your child.
    FROM: Jonestown "Death Speech", (1978), Speech, US