Victor Villaseñor - Life Quotes

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No, my dad had well explained to me that a real man didn't get offended if other men ridiculed him for staying close to the women of his familia. That a real hombre was proud of being close and loving with the women of his life.

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It was the greatest learning summer of my whole life, but then came the fall, and I was told that I'd have to go back to school again. NO WAY, JOSÉ! I screamed, because I now knew that at school they were trying to break us, not amanzar us.

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Papa always explained to me that there is no such thing as a kids' game. That there are only games with which kids are learning the facts of life, but it's the parents that are so tapados—so blind and constipated that they can't see what these games are really all about.

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I talked for hours, and for the first time in my life, I could see that I'd lived two very different lives ever since I'd started school. On the ranch I'd lived a life full of love and work and warm, good feelings. At school I'd been treated with so much … physical and mental abuse that I was still filled with so much rage; it was hard for me to even think about it.

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I liked him. He seemed a lot more animal to me than human, which was good, of course, because my grandmother, Doña Guadalupe, had always explained to me that all humans were born with an animal-spirit to help guide them through life, and so the humans who realized this would always seem more animal than human, and this was wonderful. It kept us closer to God.

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Because the most important thing any man can do in all his life is pick the right woman to breed with—I mean, marry first, then breed, because from the woman comes the— —comes the instinct to survive, I said, having heard this for as long as I could remember. Good, said mi papa,

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First of all, said Dr. Nacozi to me, I want you to know that I realize you have a brilliant mind. Me? I said, feeling shocked. Yes, you, he said. And maybe you haven't done that well in school in the past, but this is all about to change very rapidly for you, because the further you go in university life, the more apt you are to find minds like your own. I never had many friends until I got into graduate school. Before that … well, I always felt confused and lost, he said, laughing. And not very capable with the girls and in my social life, either.

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Mundo, you start paying closer attention to our mama and papa. They didn't get this far in life because their eyes are closed. I nodded. I'd never had a conversation like this before with my brother Joseph

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You just remember, mijito, whenever your wife comes screaming at you that she's going to kill you because you forgot her birthday, that what she's really saying is 'I love you, I depend on you for my life and love, and so this is why I hate you and want to kill you!' It's always with our wife, our best friends, and our relatives that we end up having most of our troubles in life, mijito.

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He knocked the chess set off his desk, screaming at me, You're not a stupid Mexican! You're just lazy! I'm one of the best chess players in all Carlsbad and you treat me with no respect! I was shocked. All my life I'd been called stupid because I was Mexican, not because I was lazy. This was really good.

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So, keep your powder dry and dig in for a long, fruitful life of being a writer, that storyteller around the campfire of your people and your generation. Your trade is as old as time, and your main job is to uplift the human heart so that then we can go on with dignity and fair play. That's it

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I still wanted to tell our teacher about how the Indian people who'd worked on the ranch for us had explained to me that Shep, who'd always loved my brother more than life itself, had disappeared, because he'd run off to the highest hilltop to intercept my brother's soul so he could lead my brother's soul back to heaven.

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Here, a man and woman unite for life, but they include in their union all the loves they will live through in their lifetime. But over there, it's all about changing wives and changing husbands, searching for that one perfect amor.

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My mother, a woman, told me this, and I'll tell you, mijo, that you will learn who you are and who you aren't in the next four or five years, because not to learn who you are and who you aren't in the next few years, my mother said, is to be missing the most important part of your whole life.

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