Epigraphs Flashcards
(20 cards)
“You are all a lost generation” - Gertrude Stein
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
“Did I request thee, maker, from my clay
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?” - Paradise Lost
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
“If they give you lined paper, write the other way” - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1956 Nobel Lit Laureate)
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay” - Romans 12:19
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
“An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer in an animal. A sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable.” - Russian language textbook
The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
“What?” - Richard Nixon
Gravity’s Rainbow (Part 4)
Thomas Pynchon
“Behind every great fortune is a crime” - Honore de Balzac
The Godfather
Marco Puzo
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” - Charles Lamb
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high enough, bound for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you’” - Thomas Park d’Invillers
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Thomas Park d’Invilliers is another of Fitzgerald’s characters - from This Side Of Paradise)
“The reader should realise himself that it could not have happened otherwise, and that to given him any other name was quite out of the question.” -
Nikolai Gogol, The Undercoat
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
(Gogol is the name of the main character)
“In the desert, there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones” - Sufi proverb
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
“NOTICE:
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot,
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
Per G.G, Chief of Ordnance”
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
“Only connect…”
Howard’s End
E.M. Forster
“What is past is prologue”
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
“It seems the that the devil controls the business of my life” - Simon Bolivar
The General in his Labyrinth
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(A biography of Simon Bolivar)
“Mistuh Kurtz…he dead”
“A penny for the old guy”
The Hollow Men
T.S Eliot
(Relating to Heart of Darkness by Conrad, and Guy Fawkes)
“A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
For ever flushing round a summer sky.”
- James Thomson from Castle of Indolence
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
“Truth, bitter truth”
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart” - Anne Frank
Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
“This is the patent age of new inventions, For killing bodies and for saving souls, All propagated with the best of intentions” - Lord Byron
The Quiet American
Graham Greene
