Author: T. C. Boyle

Cites

• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: San Miguel (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
    FROM: Musee Des Beau Arts, (1939), Poem, England/US
• Margaret Mead (1)
  • IN: The Terranauts (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never doubt that a small group of committed, thoughtful people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1)
  • IN: The Terranauts (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: L'enfer, c'est les autres.
    FROM: Huis Clos, (1944), Play, France
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Women (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility; I chose arrogance.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bob Marley (1)
  • IN: Stories (1998) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Reflexes got the better of me.
    FROM: "I Shot the Sheriff", (1973), Song, US
• Wallace Stevens (1)
  • IN: Stories II (2013) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
    FROM: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", (1917), Poem, US
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1)
  • IN: Riven Rock (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sex is a talent, and I do not have it.
    FROM: Of Love and Other Demons, (1994), Novel, Columbia
• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: After the Plague (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat our tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
    FROM: Madame Bovary, (1856), Novel, France
• Sylvester Graham (1)
  • IN: The Road to Wellville (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death.
    FROM: A Lecture on Epidemic Diseases, (1833), NULL, US
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: A Friend of the Earth (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you.
    FROM: "Nature", (1836), Essay, US
• Tom Waits (1)
  • IN: A Friend of the Earth (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The earth died screaming While I lay dreaming...
    FROM: "The Earth Died Screaming", (1992), Song, US
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: World's End (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
    FROM: "Gerontion", (1920), Poem, US
• John Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: The Tortilla Curtain (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They ain't human. A human being wouldn't live like they do. A human being couldn't stand it to be so dirty and miserable.
    FROM: The Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: Without a Hero (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... all that remained to hope was that one the day of my execution there should be a huge crows of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.
    FROM: The Stranger, (1942), Novel, France
• Mary McCarthy (1)
  • IN: Without a Hero (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To her horror, ... Dottle found herself having second thoughts: what if she had lost her virginity to a man who scared her and who sounded, from his own description, like a pretty bad hat?
    FROM: The Group, (1963), Novel, US
• Yukio Mishima (1)
  • IN: East is East (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who wish to live horribly and die horribly are choosing a beautiful way of life.
    FROM: The Way of the Samurai, (1967), Book, Japan
• Joel Chandler Harris (1)
  • IN: East is East (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Bred and bawn in de briar patch, Br'er Fox, bred and bawn."
    FROM: Uncle Remus, (1880), Novel, US
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: Budding Prospects (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep.
    FROM: The Way to Wealth, (1758), Essay, US
• Arthur Miller (1)
  • IN: Budding Prospects (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich."
    FROM: Death of a Salesman, (1949), Play, US
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: Descent of Man (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I could never have achieved what I have done had I been stubbornly set on clinging to my origins... In fact, to give up being stubborn was the supreme commandment I laid upon myself; free age as I was, I submitted myself to that yoke.
    FROM: "A Report to an Academy", (1917), Short Story, Czech-Republic
• Johnny Weissmuller (1)
  • IN: Descent of Man (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ungowa!
    FROM: Tarzan Finds a Son, (1939), Film, US
• Bruce Springsteen (1)
  • IN: Greasy Lake (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88.
    FROM: "Spirit in the Night", (1973), Song, US
• D. H. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: Whales Weep (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all...
    FROM: "Whales Weep Not", (1933), Poem, UK
• Robert Johnson (1)
  • IN: Stones in My Passway, Hellhound on My Trail (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I got stones in my passway and my road seems black as night. I have pains in my heart, they have taken my appetite.
    FROM: Stones in my Passway, (1937), Song, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: A Bird in Hand (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No, jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The Inner Circle (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Eternity was in our lips and eyes, lilies in our brows' bent...
    FROM: Antony and Cleopatra, (1623), Play, UK
• Charles Darwin (1)
  • IN: Tooth and Claw (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Simidae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and the Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the universe, proceeded.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), Book, UK
• Henry David Thoreau (2)
  • IN: DropCity (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Think of our life in nature, -- daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, -- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
    FROM: "Ktaadn", (1848), NULL, US
  • IN: Wild Child (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In Wildness is the preservation of the world.
    FROM: "Walking", (1862), Book, US
• Jim Morrison (1)
  • IN: DropCity (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god, Wandering, wandering in hopeless night. Out here in the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned Immaculate.
    FROM: "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", (1968), Song, US
• George Gordon Byron (1)
  • IN: The Relive Box and Other Stories (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
    FROM: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, (1812), NULL, UK
• Philip Larkin (1)
  • IN: The Relive Box and Other Stories (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can. And don't have any kids yourself.
    FROM: "This Be the Verse", (1971), Poem, UK
• Alfred C. Kinsey (1)
  • IN: The Inner Circle (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some sort of non-penile stimulation of the female genitalia is almost universal among the lower mammals, where, however, the lack of prehensile hands places the burden of activity on the nose and mouth of the male.
    FROM: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, (1953), Book, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: When the Killing's Done (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
    FROM: Genesis 1:28, (-165), Bible, NULL
• L. S. Vygotsky (1)
  • IN: Talk Talk (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are our language, but our real language, our real identity, lies in inner speech, that ceaseless stream and generation of meaning that constitutes the inner mind.
    FROM: Thought and Language, (1934), Book, Russia
• Dylan Thomas (1)
  • IN: Talk Talk (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thought Into the stormy idiom of the brain, ... I laernt the words of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.
    FROM: "From love's first fever to her plague", (1934), Poem, UK
• Italo Calvino (1)
  • IN: If the River Was Whiskey (1989) Short Story Collection, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.
    FROM: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, (1979), Novel, Italy