Eduardo Galeano Quotes

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Eduardo Galeano

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 3, 1940

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

Eduardo Galeano

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

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Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

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I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

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The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

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Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

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From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

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What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

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The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

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It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

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My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

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Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

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When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

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Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

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Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

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The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

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I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

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