Author: Pete Hamill

Cites

• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Loving Women (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: gone shipmate, like any other man, is gone forever; and I never met one of them again. But at times the spring flood of memory sets with force up the dark River of the Nine Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship — a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven’t we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye, brothers! You were a good crowd.
    FROM: The Nigger of the Narcissus, (1897), Book, Ukraine/ England
• Charles Brown (1)
  • IN: Loving Women (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well, I’m driftin’ and driftin’ like a ship out on the sea Well, I’m driftin’ and driftin’ like a ship out on the sea Well, I ain’t got nobody, in this world to care for me …
    FROM: Driftin’ Blues, (1945), Song, US
• Henry James (1)
  • IN: Loving Women (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ah for another go, ah for a better chance!
    FROM: The Middle Years, (1893), Short story, US/England
• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “underwear bomber” (1)
  • IN: Tabloid City (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have no one to speak to, no one to consult, no one to support me, and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do…
    FROM: NULL, (2005), Forum, Nigeria
• Hart Crane (1)
  • IN: Tabloid City (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … You shall search them all. Someday by heart you’ll learn each famous sight And watch the curtain rise in hell’s despite; You’ll find the garden in the third act dead, Finger your knees — and wish yourself in bed With tabloid crime-sheets perched in easy sight.
    FROM: The Tunnel, from The Bridge, (1930), Poem, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Snow in August (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Jew can’t live without miracles.
    FROM: Yiddish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Snow in August (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
    FROM: Bible, Hebrews 11:1, (100), Bible, NULL
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: North River (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love in full life and length, not love ideal, No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name, But something better still, so very real...
    FROM: Beppo: A Venetian Story, (1818), Poem, UK
• John Hewitt (1)
  • IN: Forever (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And what a people loves it will defend.We took their temples from them and forbade them, for many years, to worship their strange idols.They gathered in secret, deep in the dripping glens, Chanting their prayers before a lichened rock.
    FROM: The Colony, (1950), Poem, UK
• John Montague (1)
  • IN: A Drinking Life (2011) Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: Little enough I know of your struggle, although you come to me more and more, free of that heavy body armour you tried to dissolve with alcohol, a pale face staring in dream light like a fish’s belly upward to life.
    FROM: Stele for a Northern Republican, (1972), Poem, Nothern Ireland
• Seamus Heaney (1)
  • IN: The Christmas Kid (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …I had my existence. I was there. Me in place and the place in me.
    FROM: A Herbal, (2010), Poem, Ireland