Quote by Paul Theroux
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected

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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Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux

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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into maturity. – Paul Theroux

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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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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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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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A hug is a handshake from the heart. – Author Unknown

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

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