Luís Alberto Urrea Quotes

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Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Luís Alberto Urrea

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Luís Alberto Urrea

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Luís Alberto Urrea

Luís Alberto Urrea

Luís Alberto Urrea

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Born: 1955 (age 71)

Bio: Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.

Known for:

The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2004)
The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005)
Into the Beautiful North (2009)
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002)
The Water Museum: Stories (2015)

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