“Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.” — Luís Alberto Urrea, The Pleasure of God
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Quote of the Day
“Numbers never lie, after all: they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.” — Luís Alberto Urrea, The Devil’s Highway
Quote of the Day
“Death. What a ridiculous practical joke. Every old person gets the punch line that the kids are too blind to see. All the striving, lusting, dreaming, suffering, working, hoping, yearning, mourning, suddenly revealed itself to be an accelerating countdown to nightfall.” — Luís Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
Quote of the Day
“Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.” — Luís Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird’s Daughter