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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to…
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result…
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings,…
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that…
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that…
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the…
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the…
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his…
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual…
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from…
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became…

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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. — Seneca the Younger
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I… — Jesse Owens
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method… — Garry Kasparov
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson
The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass… — Liu Wen
Of course, western is my native music, — Ken Curtis
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil… — Robert Burns
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the… — Abraham Coles

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