Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeanowas an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left"...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth3 September 1940
CityMontevideo, Uruguay
CountryUruguay
sleep past may
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
football secret world
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
wine who-we-are made
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
punishment crime unforgivable
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.
respect believe charity
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
crazy military world
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?
desire
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
war world culture
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
memories wind sailor
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
information purpose torture
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
soccer football kissing
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
soccer sports running
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
powerful world wealth
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
mean warrior reality
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.