Quote by Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to l

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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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

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Travel
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Language
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books
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Exile
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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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Exile

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

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Exile

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Exile

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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Exile

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It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. – Mitt Romney

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I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldnt take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. – Dianne Wiest

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The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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Whats funny is my husband doesnt have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. – Ashley Scott

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funny