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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Beautiful Call Colorful Cut Human Humankind Memory More Much Other Our Pieces Rainbow Real Recover Than Trying Which Write I Write

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

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Against Coup Democracy Done Military Most Name Wars

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Alive Book Breathe Cry Ear Feel Here Just Laugh Like Little Person Put Really Sometimes You Your

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

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: America Discovered Indians Lived Natives Were

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Abyss Begin Between Other People Poverty Result Richness Shorten Should World

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Able Been Contradictory Divorced Explain Feel Giving Heart Ideas Just Language Mainly Mind Only Perfecting Read Reality Receiving See Something Tie Try Trying Very Way Which Write I See I Feel

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Almost Almost All Always Been Civilization Connected Disguised God Interest Made Material Name Perhaps Progress Sacred Some Them Trade Wars

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

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Bank Nature Rescued Were Would

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The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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Topics: Poor Publishers Walls

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

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Among Division Labor Losing Nations Others Some Specialize Winning

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Biography

Nationality: Uruguayan

Type: Journalist

Born: September 3rd, 1940

Died: April 13th, 2015

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