The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
Eduardo GaleanoI go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
Eduardo GaleanoI am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Eduardo GaleanoI'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.
Eduardo Galeano