Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Cites

• Eckermann (1)
  • IN: A Man of Honour (1903) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Ich iibersah meine Sache und wusste wohin ich wolite"
    FROM: Gespriiche mit Goetke, (1836), Book, Germany

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• John O'Hara (1)
  • IN: Appointment in Samarra (1934) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions andin a little while the servant came back, white and trembling and said Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned, I saw it was Death who jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there, Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop, he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said , it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
    FROM: Sheppey, (1933), Play, UK
• Bob Fox (1)
  • IN: Moving Out, Finding Home (2005) Essays, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he wil settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last, he finds rest.
    FROM: The Moon and Sixpence, (1919), NULL, UK
• Stephen King (1)
  • IN: Gerald's Game (1992) Fiction, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: [Sadie] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. “You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You’re all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!”
    FROM: Rain, (1921), Short Story, UK
• Nicholas Mennuti (2)
  • IN: Weaponz (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [The speaker is Death.] There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lend lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
    FROM: The Appointment in Samarra, (1933), NULL, France
  • IN: Weaponized (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "[The speaker is Death.] There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lend lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
    FROM: "Death Speaks", (1933), Poem, UK
• Charles Cumming (1)
  • IN: A Foreign Country (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘There’s just one thing I think you ought to know before you take on this job … If you do well you’ll get no thanks and if you get into trouble you’ll get no help. Does that suit you?’ ‘Perfectly.’ ‘Then I’ll wish you good afternoon.’
    FROM: Ashenden, (1927), Novel, UK
• Shane Maloney (2)
  • IN: The Brush-Off (1996) Crime Fiction, Comedy, Political fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I can’t think of a single Russian novel in which one of the characters goes into a picture gallery.
    FROM: NULL, (1917), Journal, UK
• Timothy Hallinan (1)
  • IN: The Bone Polisher (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have never liked anyone at first sight.
    FROM: The Summing Up, (1938), Book, France