"There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only……" — Ariel Dorfman
"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."
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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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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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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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