I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

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More Quotes By Ariel Dorfman
  1. Mr. Disney, we are returning your Duck. Feathers plucked and well-roasted. Look inside, you can see the handwriting on the wall, our hands still writing on the wall: Donald, Go Home!

  2. She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.

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

  4. We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

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

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