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Three characteristics mark all confirmed expatriates: (1) slowness on the up-take, (2) the tendency to personalize the impersonal- ...
I am a citizen of the world.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper--just running down the edges of different countries and contin ...
Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of ...
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before the ...
I had got away. That was my victory. The real quarrel with Ireland began to burgeon in me then; I thought of how it had warped me, ...
I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.
... living in England does not free the American the way living in France frees him because the french [sic] and the American do n ...
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much p ...
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