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

Eduardo Galeano

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" We Latins are known for jabbering on. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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 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. "

Eduardo Galeano

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

Eduardo Galeano

" 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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" The diversity of life is so stimulating for 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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" I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. "

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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. "

Eduardo Galeano

" 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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" 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. "

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

Eduardo Galeano

" 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. "

Eduardo Galeano

" 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. "

Eduardo Galeano

" I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. "

Eduardo Galeano

" 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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" 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. "

Eduardo Galeano

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

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

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

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