“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.” WayMayDoePlayBodyDesireGamesMemoriesIdentityReturnBirthTaxesTrackCardsManageBureaucracyVisaTax ReturnsExpulsion Book:Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile Source: Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
“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.” WorldPersonsMatterDoneMomentsBodyPainImaginationEnemyCrimeThis WorldInsightHarmThat MomentLashesProclaiming Author:Ariel Dorfman
“You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.” WorldWantLooksBodyHumanityLanguageForgetViolenceCrueltyOppressionNever ForgetParallelsSideways Author:Ariel Dorfman
