"I am astonished each time I come to……" — Eduardo Galeano
"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."
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Eduardo Galeano
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89 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
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The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death…
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions…
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can…
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To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to…
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from…
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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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