Ariel Dorfman

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

— Ariel Dorfman

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done…

— Ariel Dorfman

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax…

— Ariel Dorfman

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never…

— Ariel Dorfman

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into…

— Ariel Dorfman

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this…

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim…

— Ariel Dorfman

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain…

— Ariel Dorfman

“Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.”

— Ariel Dorfman

“A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put,…

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— 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…

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— 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…

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

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

— Ariel Dorfman

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and…

— Ariel Dorfman