"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."

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Source : Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Ariel Dorfman

#Memories Quotes #Games Quotes #Play Quotes

“Leadership doesn't come from age.”
“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.20, New York Review of Books
“When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.”
“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”
“There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.”
“It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.”
“I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.”
“Business is at the heart of America and always has been.”

Source : "CEO Threatens to Fire Employees If Obama Is Reelected and Raises Taxes" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 9, 2012.

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