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“You've got to pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.”
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
“All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language.
All of the above (Romain Gary).”
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
All of the above (Romain Gary).”
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
“The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.”
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
“She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
― The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...”
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
― Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile
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