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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. "

Eduardo Galeano

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

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

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" Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. "

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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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" 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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" The walls are the publishers of the poor. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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