"To narrate is to give oneself: it seems……" — Eduardo Galeano
"To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media."
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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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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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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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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…
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