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Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman
Argentinian Novelist
Born: May 6, 1942
Country Exile Live Power World You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates. Ariel Dorfman
You Humanity Oppression World Language Free Cruelty Other Sideways Hidden Parallel Inside Never Never Forget Look Forget Where Want Body Violence
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. Ariel Dorfman
Hope Live Imagination Without Lots Things
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman
Life Saying Home Silence You Blessing Will Think Has-Been Silenced Voice Thrown Come Been Exile Die Curse Cannot Turn Really Your Dedicated Whole Need
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history. Ariel Dorfman
History Darkness Men Mercy Country Accident Down Minerals Mining Part Leaves Go Integral Integral Part Mountain Chile Story Them Chip Then Created Who Suffer Away
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. Ariel Dorfman
Age Live Exile Refugee
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. Ariel Dorfman
Me Sense Latino Mixed South North Spanish English Mongrel Things Jewish
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Ariel Dorfman
Life Game Memory Way Marriages Identity Track Returns Does Always Deaths Same Quite May Tax Unfold Confound Tax Returns Body Such Things Keep Play Things Cards Desire
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. Ariel Dorfman
Fate Responsibility Power Secretary Through Without Ages
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out. Ariel Dorfman
Good You Yourself Power Side Out Bad Only Tendency Come Revolutionaries Then Show Among
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. Ariel Dorfman
You Anger Live Forever Survive
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. Ariel Dorfman
Country Physically Mentally Writers Emotionally Most Leave Left Who
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds. Ariel Dorfman
Alone Best Writing Community Think Worlds Solitary Possible Both Most Exists Very Person Getting Being Form Being Alone Communal

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