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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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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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 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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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. – Abigail van Buren

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Truth is a tendency. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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