Men of Maize Quotes

“However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.”
― Miguel Ángel Asturias, Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians

“In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law.”
― Miguel Ángel Asturias, Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians

“What happened in illo tempore must never be forgotten. The true sin is forgetting” (The”
― Miguel Ángel Asturias, Men of Maize

“is never good to be a writer or a prophet from a small country.”
― Miguel Ángel Asturias, Men of Maize

“the journey of an ancient people into a new age. A”
― Miguel Ángel Asturias, Men of Maize