Author: William Nicholson

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Adventures in Modern Marriage (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Desdemona: Dost thou in conscience think -- tell me, Emilia -- That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross knd? Emilia: There be some such, no question. Desdemona: Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? Emilia: Why, would not you? Desdemona: No, by this heavenly light! Emilia: Nor I neither, by this heavenly light; I might do't as well i'the dark. ..Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. What is it that they do When they change us for others? Is it sport? I think it is: and doth affection breed it? I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs? It is so too: and have not we affections, Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (1)
  • IN: Reckless (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind. There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: 'As East and West In all flat maps -- and I am one -- are one, So death doth touch the resurrection.' That still does not make a Trinity, but in another better known devotional poem Donne opens, 'Batter my heart, three-person'd God...'
    FROM: on why he named the first atom bomb test "Trinity", (None), Conversation, US
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Reckless (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you As yet but knock... Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betrothed unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie me, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthral me, never shall be free, Not ever chaste, except you ravish me.
    FROM: Holy Sonnet XIV, (None), NULL, UK
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: The Lovers of Amherst (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me -- The simple News that Nature told -- With tender Majesty -- Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see -- For love of Her -- Sweet -- countrymen -- Judge tenderly -- of Me
    FROM: This is my letter to the World, (1862), Poem, US