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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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" 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. "

Eduardo Galeano

Words

Will

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth. "

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

" This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. "

" 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. "

" Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected. "

" 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. "

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

" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "

Eduardo Galeano

Known

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Eduardo Galeano

Life

Diversity

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "