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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Age Exile Live Refugee

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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

~Ariel Dorfman

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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

~Ariel Dorfman

Topics: Been Blessing Cannot Come Curse Dedicated Die Exile Home Life Need Really Saying Silence Silenced Think Thrown Turn Voice Whole Will You Your I Think

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Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Amidst Anti-Semitism Author Because Biggest Controversy Despite Exile February Forced Gave Germany He Impression Living Lot Made Me Never Quite Quite A Lot Read Revolution Through Two Up Wars Who World Writers

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Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

~Azar Nafisi

Topics: Born Country Exile Feel Lots Times Were You

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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

~Bhagat Singh

Topics: After Birth Countries Entire Exile Family Foreign Foreign Countries Heavenly His Jail Leading Left Life Our Patriotism Sentiments Three Two Uncle Years

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The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

~Bruce Chatwin

Topics: Among Anxiety Behind Curtains Desolation Exile Five History Lace Names Random Rose Story Taken Telephone The History Of Written

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I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Always Attendant Being Best Both Choosing Citizenship Complications Decide Delight Either Exile Feeling Find Forced How Interested Live People Places Problems Themselves Who

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I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

~Chantal Akerman

Topics: Am Even Exile Go Israel Jewish Time Wherever I Am

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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: American City Everyone Exile More New New York New York City None Than York

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