"I am not a historian. I am a……" — Eduardo Galeano
"I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past"
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89 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano has 89 quotes on this site.
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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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Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with…
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When…
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
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It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll…
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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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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that…
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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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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old…
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the…
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does…
— Chuck Close
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats…
— Stephen Ambrose
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native…
— U Thant
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher…
— H.G. Wells
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