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I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.

Eduardo Galeano

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Eduardo Galeano
Age: 74 †
Born: 1940
Born: September 3
Died: 2015
Died: April 13
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Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
Eduardo German Maria Hughes Galeano
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Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
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So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.
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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
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Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
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Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others
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I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
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Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
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History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.
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