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41 quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Galeano in 2005. Born Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (1940-09-03) 3 September 1940 (age 74) Montevideo, Uruguay Occupation Writer, journalist Nationality Uruguayan Period 20th century Spouse Helena Villagra This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Hughes and the second or maternal family name is Galeano. Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born 3 September 1940) is a Uruguayan...
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History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

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

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

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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 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... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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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... →

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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... →

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