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Eduardo Galeano


Uruguayan
September 3, 1940
Journalist
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The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.


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Tags: War World Culture
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History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'


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


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


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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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Tags: Beauty Well Game
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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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Tags: Then Am I Am
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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Tags: Very Those Try
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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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.
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Tags: Age Never Around
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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Tags: Always Little Big
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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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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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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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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Tags: God Always Been
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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Tags: Good God About
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 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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Tags: Time About World
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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Tags: You More Man