Author: Leonardo Padura

Cites

• Ray Bradbury (1)
  • IN: Havana Blue (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He whirled about. “Shut up, you!” he cried. We didn’t say anything, said the mountains. We didn’t say anything, said the sky. We didn’t say anything, said the wreckage. “All right, then,” he said, swaying. “See that you don’t.” Everything was normal.
    FROM: Perchance To Dream, (1948), Short story, US
• Eliseo Diego (1)
  • IN: Havana Blue (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: possessing only between heaven and earth my memory, this time…
    FROM: Testament, (1993), Poem, Cuba
• Koran (1)
  • IN: Havana Gold (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He is the one who knows the mystery and bears witness…
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• Buddha (1)
  • IN: Havana Fever (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is only one vital time to wake up: and that is now.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Just Dion (1)
  • IN: Havana Fever (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The future is God’s, but the past belongs to history. God can’t have any more influence on history, but man can still write and transfigure it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• J.D Salinger (1)
  • IN: Havana Black (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She reflected. “I prefer stories about squalor.” “About what?” I said, leaning forward. “Squalor. I’m extremely interested in squalor.”
    FROM: For Esme, (1950), Short Story, US
• José María Heredia (1)
  • IN: Havana Black (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hurricane, hurricane, I feel you coming
    FROM: The Hurricane, (None), Poem, Cuba
• Anna Akhmatova (1)
  • IN: The Man Who Loved Dogs (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This happened when only the dead were smiling Glad to have found their resting place at last. .
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Gregorio Maranon (1)
  • IN: The Man Who Loved Dogs (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life. . is wider than history.
    FROM: Tiberio: Historia de un resentimiento, (1939), Book, Spain
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Havana Red (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We all wear masks.
    FROM: Batman, (1995), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Heretics (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever has reflected on these four things would have done better not coming into the world: What is above us? What is below us? What came before? What will come after?
    FROM: Rabbinical maxim, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Arnold Hauser (1)
  • IN: Heretics (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are artists who only feel safe when they are free, but there are also such as can breathe freely only when they are secure.
    FROM: The Social History of Art: Volume 2, (1951), Book, Hungary
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: Heretics (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything is in the hands of God, except the fear of God.
    FROM: The Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL