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

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Culture Economy Organised War World

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So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Choose How Many Me Shoulder Speak Stories Tap Tell Them Which Will Words

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Beasts Dies Diminished Diversity Every Human Just Language Loses Plants Sayings Two Two Weeks Weeks World

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: About Become Believe Business Even Eyes Football Game Itself Legs Less More Party Play Professional Soccer Still Though Watch

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Art Cafe Educated Education First Formal Formal Education Know Lessons Receive Received Remember Stories Storytelling Telling You I Remember

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Art Athlete Black Detail Down Dwarf Expect Football Giant Greece Impossible Least Lesson Look Makes Man Manipulate More Occurs Powerful Programme Ridiculous Smallest Teaches You

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Help Helping Joy Others Perhaps Purpose See Someone Think Us Who Writer I Think

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: About Almost Almost Nothing Am America Anything Astonished Blind Come Deaf Each Each Time Frontiers Happen High Ignorance Knows Latin Latin America May Nothing Outside Percentage Population Quite Time Which World I Am

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This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Heart Joy Torture Work

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Always Big Books Greatness Help Hidden Little Pettiness Reveal Small Trying Unknown

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Biography

Nationality: Uruguayan

Type: Journalist

Born: September 3rd, 1940

Died: April 13th, 2015

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