Author: Robert Littell

Cites

• Romain Gary (1)
  • IN: Legends (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All names are pseudonyms.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Bernard-Henri Levy (1)
  • IN: Legends (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... one of those individuals with multiple faces -- like so many of the great spies of Cold War mythology -- who invariably turn out to be different from who they seem and, when we think we have located them at the center of a great riddle, show up as part of another, even greater riddle...
    FROM: Who Killed Daniel Pearl, (2003), Book, France
• Pat Barker (1)
  • IN: Young Philby (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I suppose what one should be asking is whether an ideal becomes invalid because the people who hold it are betrayed.
    FROM: The Ghost Road, (1995), Novel, UK
• Mandelstam (1)
  • IN: The Stalin Epigram (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...et chacun effectuera avec son ame, telle l'hirondelle avant l'orage, un vol indescriptible.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Boris Pasternak (1)
  • IN: The Stalin Epigram (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood: Life is not a walk across a field.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Poem, Russia
• Marina Tsvetaeva (1)
  • IN: The Mayakovsky Tapes (2016) Fition, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every poet's death is murder.
    FROM: letter to poet Rainer Maria Rilke, (1926), Letter, Russia
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Mayakovsky Tapes (2016) Fition, American
    EPIGRAPH: Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
    FROM: Hamelt, (1926), Play, UK
• Manya Schwartzman (1)
  • IN: The Mayakovsky Tapes (2016) Fition, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don't come. We were mistaken.
    FROM: note to her relatives, cited in The Idea of an Unmarked Grave by Sandrine Treiner, (1926), NULL, Russia
• Word Perkins (1)
  • IN: The Visiting Professor (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So where is the visitin' professor visitin' from, huh? And when he gets his act together, what is his act?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• M. Ravel (1)
  • IN: The Visiting Professor (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Order. Routine. Chaos. Joie de vivre.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• The Tender To (1)
  • IN: The Visiting Professor (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hey, I like your music. C major, wow! Rock 'n' roll.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL