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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Age Exile Live Refugee

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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Anger Forever Live Survive You

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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

Topics: Cannot Exile Mattress Never Possibly Significance Suffered Those Understand Who

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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

Topics: Been Blessing Cannot Come Curse Dedicated Die Exile Home Life Need Really Saying Silence Silenced Think Thrown Turn Voice Whole Will You Your I Think

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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Ages Fate Power Responsibility Secretary Through Without

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

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Topics: America Been Country Greed Need Rather Than

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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

Topics: Hope Imagination Live Lots Things Without

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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

Topics: English Jewish Latino Me Mixed North Sense South Spanish Things

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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

Topics: Among Bad Come Good Only Out Power Revolutionaries Show Side Tendency Then You Yourself

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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Angels Believe God I Believe I Believe In

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Novelist

Born: May 6th, 1942

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