Author: Oscar Hijuelos

Cites

• Clement A. Miles (1)
  • IN: Mr. Ives' Christmas (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is difficult to be religious, impossible to be merry, at every moment of life, and festivals are as sunlit peaks, testifying above dark valleys, to the eternal radiance.
    FROM: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan, (1912), Book, NULL
• Octavio Paz (1)
  • IN: A Simple Habana Melody (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I travel my way through galleries of sound I flow among echoing presences...
    FROM: Piedra de Sol (Sunstone), (1957), Poem, Mexico
• Goethe (1)
  • IN: A Simple Habana Melody (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is the use of all this joy and pain? Sweet peace, come, oh come to my heart...
    FROM: Wanderer's Nightsong, (1815), Poem, Germany
• Israel Levis (1)
  • IN: A Simple Habana Melody (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I'm feeling inspired -- quick, I need a drink!"
    FROM: NULL, (1928), NULL, Habana