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Schools teach ignorance.
Memory. My poison, my food.
Development develops inequality.
A pretty move, for the love of God.
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.
The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.
History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.