#exile

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy. A cross-channel ferry, with its overfilled ashtrays and vomiting children, is as good a place as any to reflect on the angel who stands with a flaming sword in front of the gateway to all our yesterdays. ↗

— John Lanchester

#exile #memory #past #reading #imagination

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.. ↗

— Janet Frame

#writing #life

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

#exile #family #friends #friendship #full

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#immigrants #dreams

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king. ↗

— William Stafford

#king #poetry #wanderer #poetry-quotes

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. ↗

— Willa Cather

#exile #family #friends #full #his

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#cunning #even #exile #ideas #keep

As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc. ↗

— Joshua A. Tucker

#cuban #exiles #florida #long #powerful

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#any #exile #hard #i #just

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. ↗

— George Weinberg

#better off #else #everyone #exile #like