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Ariel Dorfman Quotes

Argentinian - Novelist | May 6, 1942 -

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Greed America Country Need Been

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.'

Life Home Blessing Silence Saying

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Live Age Refugee Exile

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.

World Free Language You Body Look

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.

Good Power Yourself You Bad Out

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

Live Anger Survive You Forever

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.

Community Alone Best Being Alone

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Power Responsibility Fate Without

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Live Hope Imagination Without Things

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

Me Latino Jewish Things English

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Understand Never Cannot Significance

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

God Believe I Believe Angels

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