The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.
---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss
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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
Vera NazarianTags: home house travel hospitality familiar foreign distant traveler wanderer visit trip backyard residence visitor
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him.
Wolfgang PauliTags: science einstein nature naturalism albert-einstein relativity order foreign religious-tradition theory-of-relativity
Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: "They are like chimpanzees," she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. "Eee!" she said. "I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.
Dan ChaonTags: humor strange customs foreign repulsive
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W.G. SebaldTags: consciousness foreign alien countriless stateless unfitting
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A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau
Karl PilkingtonTags: food asia foreign abroad
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Anthony MarraTags: language foreign fluency
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
Peter HøegTags: communication language understanding insight culture foreign
For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able to participate.
Colm TóibínTags: sadness loneliness outsider exile foreign
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