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

Eduardo Galeano

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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 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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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 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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" The walls are the publishers of the poor. "

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