Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. — Richard von Weizsaecker Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
