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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

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We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. – Cyril Connolly

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Illusion
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. – Cyril Connolly

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War
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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

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 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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? – Don Marquis

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. – Douglas MacArthur

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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