Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.” — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness.… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The spectacle of mass movement draws attention inevitably to the borders, the porous places, the vulnerable points where one's concept of home… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Foreignness is intrinsically stimulating. Like a good game of bridge, the condition of being foreign engages the mind constantly without ever tiring… — Being foreign: The others-the Economist Copy Share Image
“The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But, you see, what I like about you is not that you feel foreign. And I don't think you ever did feel… — Herve Le Tellier Copy Share Image
“he was no mountaineer when he decided to climb the Hindu Kush. A few days scrambling on the rocks in Wales, enchantingly… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image