Uruguay Quotes

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.
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.
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
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