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

    Age   Refugee   Exile  
    "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.
  • The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing.

    Girl   Groups   Naked  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

    Dream   Air   Vision  
    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.

    Goodbye   Rip   Thinking  
  • The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's force: A stream diverted from its parent source; A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea; A moment, parted from eternity; A pilgrim panting for the rest to come; An exile, anxious for his native home.

    Home   Sea   Parent  
    Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”
  • 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

  • We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

    Love   Pain   Memories  
  • 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.

    Eye   Land   Heaven  
  • It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

  • From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

    Sorrow   Divine   Streams  
    Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
  • No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

    Exile  
    "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.
  • I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

    Real   Home   Self  
    Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black
  • Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

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

    Nature   Fate   Firsts  
    Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
  • I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

    Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.33, Penguin Books India
  • I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make the distinction between those who are exiles in terms of being thrown out of the place they want to be, and others who are exiles in terms of going toward a place they would rather be.

    Thinking   People   Want  
    Source: scottlondon.com
  • The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

    School   Italian   Past  
    Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
  • There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

    Time   Past   Needs  
    Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland
  • Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

    Men   Compassion   Light  
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

    Running   Self   Years  
  • Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"

    Running   Mean   People  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2014). “The C.E.O. of the Sofa”, p.83, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

    Self   Different   Exile  
    Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books
  • The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

    C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press
  • [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.

    Source: www.spikemagazine.com
  • We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

  • Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

  • The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

    Joyce Carol Oates (2006). “Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006”
  • Exile is a series of photographs without texts.

  • [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

    Writing   Silence   Mind  
    "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.
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