Ariel Dorfman Quotes

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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

Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.

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Margaret Thatcher is one of your great comedians. She says Pinochet brought democracy to Chile. That's like claiming she brought socialism to Britain.

Ariel Dorfman

The enemy is inside, and we find it hard to distinguish him from some of our innermost thoughts and nurturings.

Ariel Dorfman

Reader's Digest is a tourist guidebook for the geography of ignorance.

Ariel Dorfman

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

Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman

Born: May 6, 1942 (age 84)

Bio: Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.

Known for:

Death and the Maiden (1990)
How to Read Donald Duck (1971)
Heading south, looking north (1998)
Konfidenz (1994)
The empire's old clothes (1983)

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