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Quote by Cyril Connolly
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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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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear
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Exile
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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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Exile

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

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Exile

For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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Exile

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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It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

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I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids dont feel. – Jenna Ushkowitz

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know its hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. – Paul Farmer

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positive