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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Feel Indian Make Mine Stories Take Them World I Feel I Can

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

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Country Emotionally Leave Left Mentally Most Physically Who Writers

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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

Topics: Alone Being Being Alone Best Both Communal Community Exists Form Getting Most Person Possible Solitary Think Very Worlds Writing I Think

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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

Topics: Always Body Cards Confound Deaths Desire Does Game Identity Keep Life Marriages May Memory Play Quite Returns Same Such Things Tax Things Track Unfold Way

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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

Topics: Accident Away Chile Chip Country Created Darkness Down Go History Integral Integral Part Leaves Men Mercy Minerals Mining Mountain Part Story Suffer Them Then Who Dna

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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

Topics: Body Cruelty Forget Free Hidden Humanity Inside Language Look Never Never Forget Oppression Other Parallel Sideways Violence Want Where World You

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Novelist

Born: May 6th, 1942

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