epigraph
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“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” reads the epigraph to Sara Pennypacker’s superb novel “The Lions’ Run.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It is as Caro says in the book’s epigraph: “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
I use John Pesando’s remark as the epigraph, “Every whistleblower is an amateur playing against professionals.”
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2024
He said that in the hours after Lear’s death, he was looking through his biography, “Even This I Get to Experience,” and was struck by the epigraph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
In Galileo’s famous words, which provide the epigraph to this chapter, the book of the universe is written in geometrical figures.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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