Carolina QuotesNot to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer…If you can deal with it. If it doesn’t destroy you.
Ariel Dorfman Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On not feeling that a place is truly home in “Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer'” in The Guardian (2018 May 9)
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- 2018
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“Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing …” Ariel Dorfman. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-99A8464508. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/99a8464508
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