Exile Quotes - Page 11

• Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

  William J. Mitchell

  Photograph, Series

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• I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.

  Andy Garcia

  Hard Work, Home, Heart

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• [Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.

  Catherine Camus

  Country, Algeria, Language

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

  Catherine Camus

  Outsiders, Impression

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• [To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Self, Oxford

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• What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Space, Sovereign, Lenses

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, People

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things you remember about places tend to be the most vivid details. You don't get that when you see somewhere every day.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Nice, Mean, Details

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Artist, Sound

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to earn a living. Luckily we spoke quite a bit of French at home so it wasn't too difficult for me to write in my adopted language.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Home, Writing, Wings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.

  T.S. Mathews

  Silly, Men, People

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• What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.

  Martin Amis

  Perseverance, Wife, Style

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 10, 2016

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• Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the
  prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eye, Land, Heaven

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• We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

  Haile Selassie

  War, Order, People

  "Days of Emperor and Clown : The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936" by James Dugan and Laurence Davis Lafore, (p. 204), 1973.

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• It's true that in Romanian I feel more relaxed, as if I'm wearing slippers...but I came to this decision primarily for other reasons: I had only published three collections of texts in Romania. Even before my exile I was prohibited from publishing, I was ignored and forgotten. In going back to Romanian I had the opportunity to take my revenge.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Revenge, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Pain, Cutting, Envy

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• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

  Nancy Mitford

  Paris, Joy, Unhappy

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage

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• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative
  exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the
  creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will
  inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy,
  and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and,
  above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  Bernice Rubens

  Blessed, Home, Writing

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• But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.

  W. H. Auden

  Dream, Lying, Eye

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Grieving, Vain

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Starting Over, Letters, Easy

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 29, 2013

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• I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  War, Games, Giving

  "Gears Of War: Exile Canned" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loneliness, Self, Bucks

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.67, Basic Books

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