Quote of the Day: Aleksandar Hemon on Life, Death and Soccer
The novelist mourns that "Life is too short to miss any games"
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."Life is too short to miss any games to be played this summer in South Africa. A sad fact of human existence is that an average life seldom contains more than 20 World Cups--our games are tragically numbered"
--Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon in an article for The New Republic, via Frank Foer
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