Uruguayan - Journalist | September 3, 1940 - April 13, 2015
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
Eduardo Galeano
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
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Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
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Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
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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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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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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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I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
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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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Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
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I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
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