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Eduardo Galeano (Writer)

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

— Eduardo Galeano good

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

— Eduardo Galeano beauty

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.

— Eduardo Galeano man

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

— Eduardo Galeano fear

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 people

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

— Eduardo Galeano kiss

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.

— Eduardo Galeano education

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.

— Eduardo Galeano time

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 war

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

— Eduardo Galeano war

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.

— Eduardo Galeano war

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

— Eduardo Galeano world

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

— Eduardo Galeano nature

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 dreams

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.

— Eduardo Galeano time

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.

— Eduardo Galeano writing

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

— Eduardo Galeano nature

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.

— Eduardo Galeano war

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.

— Eduardo Galeano life

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 world

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

— Eduardo Galeano destiny

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.

— Eduardo Galeano art

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

— Eduardo Galeano poor

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

— Eduardo Galeano

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

— Eduardo Galeano life

History never really says goodbye. History says, See you later.

— Eduardo Galeano good

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