#exile

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

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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

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

— George Weinberg

#better off #else #everyone #exile #like

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#forget #lies #longer #makes #redemption

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#astonishing #because #been #england #exile

I am not in exile. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

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