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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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "

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" The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy? "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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