Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

About Eduardo Galeano:

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".
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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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 everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

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The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

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The walls are the publishers of the poor.

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

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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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I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

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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-think...

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

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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 little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

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

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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.

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We Latins are known for jabbering on.

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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.

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

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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.

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What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameEduardo Galeano
  • DescriptionUruguayan writer
  • AliasesEduardo Hughes Galeano; Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
  • BornSeptember 3, 1940
  • DiedApril 13, 2015
  • CountryUruguay
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsStig Dagerman Prize