Ariel Dorfman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.”

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

“I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.”

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