No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.
Eduardo GaleanoWriting is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Eduardo GaleanoMost of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
Eduardo GaleanoPoets 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.
Eduardo Galeano