Being free Quote by Adam Gopnik

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I…

— Paul Auster

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can…

— Paul Theroux

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If…

— Bharati Mukherjee

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You…

— Ernest Hemingway

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

— James Hillman

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate,…

— Jarvis Cocker

“Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues…

— Richard Rorty

“In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he…

— Bertrand Russell

“I notice I am taking risks with my own security and losing my sensitivity to danger. I don't know it at the time, but…

— Jason Elliot

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the…

— Walter Raleigh

“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But, if, having…

— John Graves

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”

— Eva Hoffman

“You never feel more American than when you leave America.”

— David Lebovitz

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

— William Klein