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

Eduardo Galeano

Words

Competition

Silence

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. "

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

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

Eduardo Galeano

Life

Diversity

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The walls are the publishers of the poor. "