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 americacondemnforgetfulness Change image and share on social
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. Eduardo Galeano attractballbeauty Change image and share on social
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. Eduardo Galeano allowcelebrationdenunciation share on social
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 beastdiminishdiversity Change image and share on social
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 helpjoypurpose Change image and share on social
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. Eduardo Galeano badlyinflationlanguage Change image and share on social
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. Eduardo Galeano bigbusinessembrace share on social
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. Eduardo Galeano discloseevilfight Change image and share on social
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 contradictorydivorceexplain share on social
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 countrydamnfootball share on social