“ Eating the bitter bread of banishment. - King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work. ”
- James Carroll- Copy
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“ They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. ”
- Pope Gregory VII- Copy
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“ Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
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“ It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. ”
- Paul Theroux- Copy
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“ Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men. ”
- Jose Marti- Copy
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“ Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds… ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. ”
- Kahil Gibran- Copy
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“ You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. ”
- Isabel Allende- Copy
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“ With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. ”
- Lynn White- Copy
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“ He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
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“ The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly. ”
- Julian Barnes- Copy
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“ I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. ”
- Derek Jarman- Copy
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“ I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
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“ Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. ”
- Francis Parkman- Copy
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“ It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. ”
- Alan Cumming- Copy
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