Ariel Dorfman QUOTES

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! "

― Ariel Dorfman , How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

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. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey

3 " [El desierto] que parece recordar de todo lo que le ha pasado, que recuerda y que termina por destruir todo lo que le pasa. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North

4 " Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Death and the Maiden

5 " أفضل لحظات الحياة هى تلك التي لا ندري فيها ما يجب علينا عمله ، لأننا عندئذ فقط يا صغيري نكتشف قوتنا الداخلية ، ميلنا الحقيقي "

― Ariel Dorfman , ثقة

6 " Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination. "

― Ariel Dorfman

7 " هذا أحد الأمور التي لا يمكن لنا حسمها : كيف سيدعونا الآخرون . نحن نعرف كيف سندعو أنفسنا وحسب "

― Ariel Dorfman , ثقة

8 " Never, ever apologize if you haven't done anything wrong. Keep your sorrys and your excuse mes and your please forgive mes, above all keep your please, please forgive mes for the one moment in life when you'll really need them, need those words. And you will be in dire need of entreaties like these, oh you will be praying for those words, blessing yourself for not having wasted them on something spurious and unworthy. You will someday be kneeling, kneeling down in front of a pair of accusing eyes, threatening feet, feet that might kick you or feet that might do something worse. At times what we should dread most are feet that will run away, that will run away and leave us everlastingly alone. Loneliness is what should terrify you most, more than a slap or a kick or hunger even. And that's when those words, please, please forgive me, will be all that separates you from the pit and swamp of the deepest despair. So don't squander them on matters of no consequence. The world is cursed because people do not apologize for theirs sins or crimes or merely their cowardice, but it's even more cursed because people apologize much too much-- they use their regrets as a way of not really probing what the have done, as permission to persevere in their blindness, absolving themselves without having atoned or understood. "

― Ariel Dorfman

9 " 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 "

― Ariel Dorfman , شکستن طلسم وحشت

10 " 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. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Mascara

11 " the urgent task we need to undertake if we want a different sort of country is the task of extracting Pinochet from our minds, turning him into a terrible memory that will not return "

― Ariel Dorfman , شکستن طلسم وحشت

12 " A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put, emotionless and impartial. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Burning City

13 " El desierto no ofrece siquiera la ilusión de que uno podrá ser alguna vez otra cosa que un intruso. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North

14 " [El desierto] Es como una mujer [...] Seduce, atrae... Cuando lo ves por la primera vez, el desierto ofrece muchas tentaciones y luego te las va negando lentamente, repite la misma oferta, cada día te da otra vez más, casi con desperación, lo que ya te ha dado ayer. Siempre igual en su monotonía. Y uno empieza a darse cuenta de que realmente jamás se entregará "

― Ariel Dorfman , Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North

15 " بعد هم از من قول می‌گرفت هیچ‌وقت نگذارم معشوقم از پیشم برود، نه به جنگ و نه به شهری از پی کاری. می‌گفت مرد آدم مثل بدن آدم است و نباید لحظه‌ای از او غافل شوی. اما حالا دیگر دیرزمانی بود که معشوق‌های احتمالی‌مان را در ذهن مرور نمی‌کردیم، چون سال‌ها می‌شد که معشوق موجودی بود در دوردست‌ها، موجودی ناموجود. "

― Ariel Dorfman , Widows