"Beware of turning into the enemy you most……" — Ariel Dorfman
"Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination."
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Ariel Dorfman
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18 Quotes by Ariel Dorfman
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
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Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that…
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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been…
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
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I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
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I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed…
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Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to…
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This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
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