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I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Angel
Believe
I Believe
God Believe I Believe
Angels
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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Age
Exile
Refugee
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You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Anger
Forever
Survive
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Power
Destiny
Fate
Responsibility
Secretary
Ages
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This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
America
Country
Greed
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I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Feels
Indian
Stories
World
Mine
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Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Country
Left
Physically
Mentally
Emotionally
Writers
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Imagination
Without Hope
Lots
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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 in me.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Latino
South
Jewish
English
Mixed
Mongrel
North
Spanish
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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Exile
Gravitas
Mattresses
Significance
Understand
Never
Those
Cannot
Suffered
Mattress
Possibly
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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 power, the bad side comes out.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Revolutionary
Sides
Tendencies
Among
Revolutionaries
Tendency
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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 / Novelist
Being Alone
Community
Solitary
Thinking
Writing
Communal
Exists
Worlds
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You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Body
Cruelty
Forget
Humanity
Language
Looks
Never Forget
Oppression
Sideways
Violence
World
Inside
Free
Look
Hidden
Parallel
Where
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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Home
Blessing
Thinking
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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Home
Blessing
Curse
Dedicated
Exile
Silence
Thrown
Voice
Whole
Die
Saying
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Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Men
Chile
Country
Dna
Mercy
Minerals
Mountain
Accident
Integral
Integral Part
Leaves
Suffer
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Cards
Desire
Games
Identity
Memories
Play
Tax Returns
Track
Tax
Confound
Deaths
Marriages
Memory
Returns
Such Things
Unfold
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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.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Imagination
Enemy
Pain
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Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Compassion
Numbness
Pain
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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 perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?
Ariel Dorfman / Novelist
Darkness
Night
Sleep
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