"... love is banality to all outsiders."
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"In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies."
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"Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it."
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"What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about."
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"I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment."
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"There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner."
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"I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept."
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"The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself."
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"I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out."
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"From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider."
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"Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else."
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"The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted."
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"[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class."
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"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
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"The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble."
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"I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is."
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"I always felt an outsider."
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"I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers."
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"I was a complete outsider in high school."
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"It really helps a comedian to be an outsider."
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