epigraph

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Or, as Silvina Ocampo put it, in a quotation selected by Ms. Schweblin as her epigraph: “Strange is always truer.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

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

The epigraph of “Encounterism,” a quotation from the French novelist and essayist Georges Perec, is about questioning “the habitual.”

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 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