Quotes on the topic: Exile


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I am not in exile.


In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.


I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.


I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.



Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.


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


Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.


I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.


The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.


I know how men in exile feed on dreams.


I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.


In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.


New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.


The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.


Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.


We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.


The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.


Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.


Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.