Eduardo Galeano Quotes

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Eduardo Galeano

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 3, 1940

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

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Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

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I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

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The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

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The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

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Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

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A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

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Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

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In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

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The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

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From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

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