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Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan
Journalist
About the author
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Eduardo Galeano,
Uruguayan
Journalist
#First
#Kiss
#Wine
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
Eduardo Galeano,
Uruguayan
Journalist
#Work
#Heart
#Joy
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.
Eduardo Galeano,
Uruguayan
Journalist
#Time
#Nothing
#World
#May
#Population
#Ignorance
#America
#Blind
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano,
Uruguayan
Journalist
#Poor