"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."

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Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

Antony Jay

#Facts Quotes #Exile Quotes

“I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I wondered what his life was like now. Did he ever think of us? I wanted to hate him, but I couldn't; I didn't know him well enough. Instead, I wondered about him occasionally, with a confused kind of longing. There was a place inside me carved out for him; I didn't want it to be there, but it was. Once, at the hardware store, Brooks had shown me how to use a drill. I'd made a tiny hole that went deep. The place for my father was like that.”
“I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.”
“My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.”
“Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.”
“Nothingâ€™s changed. Youâ€™ll go home. Youâ€™ll be bored. Youâ€™ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. Youâ€™re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They donâ€™t even get your name right.”
“Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.”
“Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.”

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