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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

Other quotes by Cyril Connolly

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. – Cyril Connolly

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Laziness
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Home
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Other Quotes from
Exile
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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

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Exile

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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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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Im one of those hovering mothers and I know its really important to have an independent child, so Im trying to back off, but its hard. I love him so much, and hes so funny and cute to me. – Selma Blair

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These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed. – Marc Andreessen

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