Author: Peter Carey

Cites

• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The past is not dead. It is not even past.
    FROM: Requiem for a Nun, (1951), NULL, US
• Flaubert (1)
  • IN: Theft (2006) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Am I to be king, or just a pig?
    FROM: Intimate Notebook, (1967), NULL, France
• Macado Fernandez (1)
  • IN: Theft (2006) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Joachim had been born before the war, in the years when children still had to learn by heart the thirteen reasons for using a capital letter. To these he had added one more of his own, which was that he would, in all circumstance, do exactly what he wished.
    FROM: One Man, (2006), Fictional, NULL
• Alexis de Tocqueville (2)
  • IN: Parrot & Olivier in America (2009) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It is not good to announce every truth.
    FROM: Oeuvres, Nouvelle Correspondance, (1866), NULL, France
• Mary Shelley (1)
  • IN: My Life as a Fake (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I beheld the wretch -- the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
    FROM: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, (1818), Novel, UK
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Illywhacker (1985) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibles; but they are all true, they all happened.
    FROM: More Tramps Abroad, (1897), Book, UK
• G. A. Wilkes (1)
  • IN: Illywhacker (1985) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: illywhacker A professional trickster, esp. operating at country shows [derived by Baker (1945:138) from spieler] 1941 Kylie Tennant The Battlers 183-4: An illywacker is someone who is putting a confidence trick over, selling imitation diamond tie-pins, new-style patent razors or infallible "tonics"... "living on the cockies" by such devices, and following the shows because money always flows freest at show time. A man who "wacks the illy" can be almost anything, but two of these particular illywackers were equipped with a dart game. 1943 Baker 40: Illywhacker A trickster or spieler. 1975 Hal Porter The Extra 15: Social climber, moron, peter-tickler, eeler-spee, illy-wacker.
    FROM: A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, (1978), NULL, Australia