Author: Aidan Higgins

Cites

• Michel de Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Darkling Plain (2010) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I speak about myself in diverse way: that is because I look at myself in diverse ways.
    FROM: Essays translated and edited by M.A. Screech, (1992), Essay, France
• Cyril Connolly (1)
  • IN: Darkling Plain (2010) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The bars are closed, the hotel is empty, the nymphs have departed.
    FROM: The Rock pool, (1936), Novel, UK
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: Darkling Plain (2010) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Time... attenuates memories.
    FROM: The Zahir, (1949), Novel, Brazil
• Samuel Lewis Esquire (1)
  • IN: A Bestiary (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: In the County Kildare the circumstances and appearance of the population located on the bogs, or in their immediate viccinity, are very favourable. On each side of those parts of the canal that pass through the the bog, the land is let in small lots to turf-cutters who take up their residence on the spot, however dreary and uncomfortable. Their first care is to excavate a site fit for habitation on the driest bank that can be selected, which is sunk so deep that little more than the roof is visible; this is covered with scanty thatch, or more frequently with turf pared from the bog, laid down with the herbage upward, which is superficially assimilated with the aspect of the surrounding scenery that the eye would pass it over unnoticed, were it not undeceived by the appearance of the children and domestic animals sallying from a hole in one side, and by the occasional gush of smoke from the numerous chinks in the roof. The English language is everywhere spoken.
    FROM: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, (1837), Book, US
• Alan Bennett (1)
  • IN: A Bestiary (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then.
    FROM: Writing Home, (1994), Book, UK
• Eudora Welty (1)
  • IN: A Bestiary (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The stench of sensation is like anaesthetic made visible.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Balcony of Europe (1972) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I begin to see things double--doubled in history, world history, personal history.
    FROM: Letter to Dorothy Wellesley, (1937), Letter, Ireland
• Violette Leduc (1)
  • IN: Balcony of Europe (1972) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We go on loving those we have loved in other forms, or else we begin to cherish in other forms those we should have cherished in the past. Nothing changes. Everything is transformed.
    FROM: La Bâtarde, (1964), Book, France
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Bornholm Night-Ferry (1983) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Nod larer nogen kvinde at spinde Distress teaches naked women to spin
    FROM: Danish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Denmark