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1. "She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember." ~ Ariel Dorfman
2. "This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need." ~ Ariel Dorfman
3. "We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope." ~ Ariel Dorfman
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world." ~ Ariel Dorfman
8. "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
9. "Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally." ~ Ariel Dorfman
10. "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
11. "Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress." ~ Ariel Dorfman
12. "We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile." ~ Ariel Dorfman
13. "You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever." ~ Ariel Dorfman
14. "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
15. "Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know." ~ Ariel Dorfman
16. "A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put, emotionless and impartial." ~ Ariel Dorfman

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