I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The Stadium Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
“WALLS The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From morning till night we read, saw, heard: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
“In the Greek Olympics, women, slaves, and foreigners never took part. Not in Greek democracy either.” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share
