Author: Philip Kerr

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• NULL (4)
  • IN: The Winter Horses (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Prezewalski's: pronounced "shuh-VAHL-skeez"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Berlin Noir (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: First Man: Have you noticed how the March Violets have managed to completely overtake Party veterans like you and me? Second Man: You're right. Perhaps if Hitler had also waited a little before climbing on to the Nazi bandwagon he'd have become Fuhrer quicker too.
    FROM: Schwarze Korps, (1935), NULL, Germany
  • IN: March Violets (1989) Crime Fiction, Detective fiction, Historical mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: FIRST MAN: Have you noticed how the March Violets have managed to completely overtake Party veterans like you and me? SECOND MAN: You're right. Perhaps if Hitler had also waited a little before climbing on to the Nazi bandwagon he'd have become Führer quicker too.
    FROM: Schwarze Korps, November 1935, (1935), Speech, Germany
  • IN: If the Dead Rise Not (2009) Mystery, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
    FROM: From the 1559 book of Common Prayer, (1559), NULL, NULL
• Joseph Goebbels (1)
  • IN: A Man Without Breath (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A nation without a religion -- that is like a man without breath.
    FROM: Michael, (1929), Novel, Germany
• Mahatma Gandhi (1)
  • IN: Prayer (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
    FROM: Non-violence in peace & war, (1942), Book, India
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Prayer (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
    FROM: An Ideal Husband, (1899), Play, UK
• Cormac McCarthy (1)
  • IN: Prayer (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Research (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Write what you know.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Graham Greene (1)
  • IN: Field Grey (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't like Ike.
    FROM: The Quiet American, (1955), Novel, UK
• Reinhold Niebuhr (1)
  • IN: The One from the Other (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
    FROM: The Serenity Prayer, (1942), Religious Text, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Dark Matter (2002) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ARISE, SHINE; FOR THY LIGHT IS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS RISEN UPON THEE.
    FROM: Isaiah 60:1, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Nikolai Gogol (1)
  • IN: Dead Meat (1993) Fiction, Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hm, so you want some bread?' Ivan Ivanovich will ask. What's wrong with that, sir? I could eat a horse!' Hm. I suppose you want some meat as well?' I'll be pleased with anything you're kind enough to give me.' Hm, so meat's better than bread, is it?' You just can't be fussy when you're hungry. Anything's welcome.'
    FROM: How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich', (1835), Novel, Russia
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Gridiron (1995) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
• Tom Wolfe (1)
  • IN: Gridiron (1995) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: … that glass of ice water in the face, that bracing slap across the mouth, that reprimand for the fat on one's bourgeois soul, known as modern architecture.
    FROM: From Bauhaus to Our House, (1981), Book, US
• Warren Chalk (1)
  • IN: Gridiron (1995) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are in pursuit of a new idea, a new vernacular, something to stand alongside the space capsules, computers and throwaway packages of an atomic electronic age…'
    FROM: NULL, (1965), NULL, UK
• Diego Maradona (1)
  • IN: Hand of God (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God’
    FROM: Diego Maradona on his first goal against England in the 1986 World Cup, (1986), NULL, Argentina
• Alfred Doblin (1)
  • IN: The Lady from Zagreb (2015) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you’ll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Rebecca West (1)
  • IN: The Lady from Zagreb (2015) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.
    FROM: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, (1941), Book, UK
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Lady from Zagreb (2015) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1899), Novel, Poland
• Kieran Robinson (1)
  • IN: False Nine (2015) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense , British
    EPIGRAPH: The term ‘false 9’ refers to a player playing in a lone-striker position who drops deep to search for the ball. The intention is to draw opposing central defenders with him and create a diversion for team-mates to move into space behind the defensive line and exploit chances to score.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Article, NULL
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: The Other Side of Silence (2016) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He ruin’d me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
    FROM: A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, (1633), Poem, UK
• James Fenton (1)
  • IN: A German Requiem (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.
    FROM: A German Requiem, (1981), Book, UK
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
  • IN: A Philosophical Investigation (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The best that I could write would never be more than philosophical remarks; my thoughts were soon crippled if i tried to force them on in any single direction against their natural inclination. - And this was, of course, connected with the very nature of the investigation. For this compels us to travel over a wide field of thought criss-cross in every direction.
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations (translated by G. E. M. Anscombe), (1958), Book, Austria
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: A Philosophical Investigation (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate . . .
    FROM: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, (1915), Poem, US
• John E Booty (1)
  • IN: If the Dead Rise Not (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
    FROM: the 1559 Book of Common Prayer, (1559), Book, US
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Pale Criminal (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Much about your good people moves me to disgust, and it is not their evil I mean. How I wish they possessed a madness through which they could perish, like this pale criminal. Truly I wish their madness were called truth or loyalty or justice: but they possess their virtue in order to live long and in a miserable ease.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany

Cited by

• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: The Falls (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not my accent — I didn’t lose that so much as wipe it off my shoe, as soon as I started to live in England — but rather my own temperament, the prototypically Scottish part of my character that was chippy, aggressive, mean, morbid and, despite my best endeavours, persistently deist. I was, and always would be, a lousy escapee from the unnatural history museum...
    FROM: The Unnatural History Museum, (None), NULL, UK