"The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped."

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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

Adam Gopnik

#Loneliness Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Being Free Quotes

“I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.”
“The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.”
“Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.”
“The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.”
“Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.”
“If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently”
“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.”
“True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.”

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