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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: American City Every Exile More New New York None Than Unnatural Where York

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I am not in exile.

~Chen Guangcheng

Topics: Am Exile I Am

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

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Bucks Concept Continually Exile Loneliness Me Self-Sufficiency Up

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We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

~David Whyte

Topics: Away Become Believe Compassionate Due Exile Gain Generous Giving Grow Homecoming Learn Loss Much Our Receiving Things Through

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The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Alienated Country Even Exile Fury He Himself His History Jew Once Own Survives

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'The Exile' covers approximately the first third of 'Outlander'.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Approximately Covers Exile First Third

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The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Crave Exile Miracle More Nature Ourselves Waters

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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Always Because Build Cockroach Dismiss Dust Exile Forbid God Houses Inside Like More More And More Nature Ourselves Outside Some Something Try

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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

~Don Delillo

Topics: About Cunning Even Exile Ideas Keep Most Nature Quiet Silence Things Work

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I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

~Dree Hemingway

Topics: Ever Exile Might Myself Never Well Would Write

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