“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“A funny thing about living abroad is that what might separate us expats back home brought us closer together in China. We'd… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
“But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The most difficult adjustment an expatriate has to make, on returning to his native land, is in this realm of conversation. The… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Certainly expatriate Japanese businessmen are never actually mentally in the country to which they are posted. They sit late in the office,… — Rob Elliott Copy Share Image
“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place… — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
