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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. "

Eduardo Galeano

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "

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

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

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

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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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" Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. "

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" The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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