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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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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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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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Body, the
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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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

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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

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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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

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. – Frank Moore Colby

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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. – John F. Kennedy

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Future

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. – Helen Rowland

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wedding

Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”

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Flowers