Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf. Eduardo Galeano More Quotes by Eduardo Galeano More Quotes From Eduardo Galeano It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. Eduardo Galeano words competition language silence I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. Eduardo Galeano i-am me grateful world There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. Eduardo Galeano tradition dark work book I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. Eduardo Galeano dreams best wake-up night 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 plants diversity language world 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 good god love football 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 best money silence time Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories. Eduardo Galeano story day me bird In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. Eduardo Galeano without never age perfect Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. Eduardo Galeano were nature victim natural 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 remembering land america past In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America. Eduardo Galeano indians lived were america We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. Eduardo Galeano memory rainbow real beautiful
