"He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside."
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"He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside."
"You have to be an outsider to write."
"I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose."
"We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders."