"I'm the most communal person that exists and……" — Ariel Dorfman
"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."
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Ariel Dorfman
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18 Quotes by Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who…
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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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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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