Author: Robin Cook

Cites

• Lt. Wilfred Owen (1)
  • IN: How the Dead Live (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shall life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? ... Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified, Nor my titanic tears, the seas, be dried.
    FROM: the Sambre, (1918), Poem, UK
• Jerome. P M.D. Kassirer (1)
  • IN: Contagion (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our leaders should reject market values as a framework for health care and the market-driven mess into which our health system is evolving.
    FROM: JEROME P. KASSIRER, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 333, No. 1, p. 50, 1995, (1995), NULL, NULL
• Ashtavakra Gita, 1:11 (1)
  • IN: Foreign Body (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If one thinks of oneself as free, one is free, and if one thinks of oneself as bound, one is bound. Here this saying is true, “Thinking makes it so.”
    FROM: Ashtavakra Gita translated by John Richards, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Intervention (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now a certain man named Simon had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he was someone great. All of them, from the least to the greatest, listened to him eagerly, saying “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they listened eagerly to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip, who was proclaiming the good news about the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed. After being baptized, he stayed constantly with Philip and was amazed when he saw the signs and great miracles that took place. Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. The two went down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit (for as yet the Spirit had not come upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying “Give me also this power so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money! You have no part or share in this, for your heart is not right before God.”
    FROM: Acts of the Apostles 8:9-21, (100), Bible, NULL
• Walter Sir Scott (1)
  • IN: Cure (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
    FROM: Marmion, canto vi, stanza 17, (1808), Poem, UK
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Harmful Intent (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    FROM: Henry VI, Part II, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Acceptable Risk (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1)
  • IN: Mutation (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “HOW DARE YOU SPORT THUS WITH LIFE."
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• François Rabelais (1)
  • IN: Terminal (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
    FROM: Pantagruel, (1532), Novel, France
• Herodotus (2)
  • IN: Sphinx (1979) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks to a great length, because there is no country that possesses so many wonders, nor any that has such a number of works that defy descriptions.
    FROM: The History of Herodotus, (-440), Book, Greece
• JEROME P. KASSIRER, M.D. (1)
  • IN: Contagion (1992) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our leaders should reject market values as a framework for health care and the market-driven mess into which our health system is evolving.
    FROM: "Managed Care and the Morality of the Marketplace", New England Journal of Medicine, (1995), Article, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Vector (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ne roy drugola yams, sam v neyo popadesh (do not dig a hole for another, you just might fall in it yourself)
    FROM: Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
• Michel de Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Crisis (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The laws of conscience which we say are born of nature, are born of custom.
    FROM: The Essays of Montaigne, (1580), Essay, France
• Hippocrates (1)
  • IN: Brain (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears…
    FROM: The Sacred Disease Sect. XVII, (-400), Book, Greece