Author: Thomas McGuane

Cites

• Marina Tsvetaeva (2)
  • IN: Crow Fair: Stories (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The rest of you can eat me up. I just record your behavior.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
  • IN: Crow Fair (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The rest of you can eat me up. I just record your behavior.
    FROM: "The Desk, (1933), Poem, Russia/Soviet
• Yogi Berra (1)
  • IN: Nothing but Blue Skies (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Speech, US
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1)
  • IN: Ninety-Two in the Shade (1973) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man is excellently made and eagerly lives the kind of life that is being lived.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Antonio Carlos Jobim (1)
  • IN: Keep the Change (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I photographed you with my Rolleiflex. It showed your enormous ingratitude.
    FROM: Desafinado, (1959), Song, Brazil
• Graham Greene (1)
  • IN: Gallatin Canyon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To be a human being, one had to drink from the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.
    FROM: The Heart of the Matter, (1948), Novel, UK
• Robert Walser (1)
  • IN: Driving on the Rim (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As for the double life, everyone lives one actually. Why brag about it?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Switzerland
• Aristophanes (1)
  • IN: The Sporting Club (1968) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whirl is king.
    FROM: The Clouds, (-423), Play, Greece
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
  • IN: The Cadence of Grass (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover.
    FROM: Kubla Khan, (1816), Poem, UK
• W.S. (1)
  • IN: The Bushwacked Piano (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the sea was calm all ships alike Showed mastership in floating.
    FROM: Coriolanus, (1623), Play, UK
• Charles Morgan (1)
  • IN: Something to Be Desired (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no question that the dog who is really ready for a big trial is on the threshold of committing grave mistakes.
    FROM: On Retrievers, (1968), Book, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Panama (1978) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The best epitaph a man can gain is to have accomplished daring deeds of valor against the enmity of fiends during his lifetime.
    FROM: The Seafarer, (950), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Bret Easton Ellis (1)
  • IN: Lunar Park (2005) Postmodern literature, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
    FROM: Panama, (1978), Novel, US
• John Harvey (2)
  • IN: Ash & Bone (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
    FROM: Nobody's Angel, (1981), Novel, US