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

~Eduardo Galeano

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The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

~Eduardo Galeano

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A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

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Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Adventure Away Capture Difficult Escape Marvelous Run Those Try Very Words Writing

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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

~Eduardo Galeano

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Accustomed America Become Bombs Communities Every Explode Hiroshima Human Latin Latin America Making Over Poverty Secret Sound Suffering Teeth Three Without Year

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I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

~Eduardo Galeano

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From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

~Eduardo Galeano

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: About Country Damn Football Give Go God Good Hand Happens Love Miracle Move Performs Plead Pretty Stadiums Team Thanks Which World

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From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Castle Impose Owners Propose Soccer Way

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Biography

Nationality: Uruguayan

Type: Journalist

Born: September 3rd, 1940

Died: April 13th, 2015

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