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 Copy Share Image
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions,… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
