Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Eduardo GaleanoRichness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
Eduardo GaleanoI have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Eduardo GaleanoAny 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 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