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16 quotes by Ariel Dorfman

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.
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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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

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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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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 in me.

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