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Letter "R" » Rio
«If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people / including me / would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«In Brazil every kid starts playing street football very early. It's in our blood. As a professional I started at Sao Cristovao in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Of course I also played in the beach soccer league, barefoot.»
Author: Ronaldo
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Children,
Sports
| Keywords:
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«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
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«And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!»
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