Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there… — William Shakespeare 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
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
“It was so important that she should understand something of what his life in this country had been; that she should grasp… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
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