Quote by Cyril Connolly
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not

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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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly

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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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Exile

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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Exile

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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Exile

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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Exile

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