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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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Speech (freedom of)
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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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power
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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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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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. – Pope Gregory VII

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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing

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We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, weve got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonalds isnt only about the food. Its about the prices, its about the way we eat. – Jim Cantalupo

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. – Johnson

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