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

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Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

Ariel Dorfman

#Age Quotes #Refugee Quotes #Exile Quotes

“I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.”
“The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.”
“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”
“Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162
“Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.”

Source : "Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos" by Ian Stewart, New York: Penguin Books, (p. 17), 1989.
“Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.”
“I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.”

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