33 Quotes by Ariel Dorfman

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

I’m a mongrel in the sense that I’m Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south – all these things are mixed in me.

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

That’s all it takes, one person crying out in the ethical wilderness, one person and then one more and then another, that’s all that’s needed to keep the spark of justice alive.

I’m really not sure if others fail to perceive me or if, one fraction of a second after my face interferes with their horizon, a millionth of second after they have cast their gaze on me, they already begin to wash me from their memory: forgotten before arriving at the scant, sad archangel of a remembrance.

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.

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

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.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.