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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we h

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggars smile from the scorn of free men. – Jose Marti

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Youre an expatriate. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s. – Ernest Hemingway

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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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