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You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
— Ariel Dorfman
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Ariel Dorfman
screenwriter, writer, playwright, journalist, novelist, essayist, professor, literary critic
1942
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American 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.
All Quotes by Ariel Dorfman
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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
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I think the genre decides for me—which sounds like a way of avoiding the question unless I explain first that this chameleon-like border crossing, this shifting of genre identities is, I realize, parallel to, or anticipates, or recollects my own life. I’m probably fluctuating across genres perhaps because my identity itself is always in flux…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer…If you can deal with it. If it doesn’t destroy you.
— Ariel Dorfman
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More than a traveler, I’m a displacer. In other words, I’m a person who is constantly meditating on what it means not to arrive at a place, but to be on my way somewhere else.
— Ariel Dorfman
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The past is really unknowable, but it’s got to be knowable enough so that we can seek forgiveness for our crimes…
— Ariel Dorfman