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
Kehlmann’s epigraph, from the Austrian Nazi writer Heimito von Doderer’s 1966 short story collection “Under Black Stars,” describes “drifting along on a broad wave of absurdity, although we knew and saw it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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
Which is why the epigraph of this book is the quatrain from the famous Christmas carol.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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