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Ariel Dorfman Quotes

born 1942 United States

Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist.

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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.

The past is really unknowable, but it’s got to be knowable enough so that we can seek forgiveness for our crimes…

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ariel Dorfman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.