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

Eduardo Galeano

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" 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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" The diversity of life is so stimulating for me. "

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

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" I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. "

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

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

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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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" The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi. "

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

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

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" There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. "

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" The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring. "

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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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" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

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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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" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The walls are the publishers of the poor. "

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

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" We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. "

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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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" 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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" 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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