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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. "

Eduardo Galeano

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" I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it. "

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Eduardo Galeano

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. "

" 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. "

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

" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "

" If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it. "

" 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. "

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

" Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. "

" I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness. "

" 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. "