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Banished Quotes

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Euripides
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
Euripides, Electra

Jessica Fortunato
“He held up his hands in surrender. “I’m not here to start trouble. I am just doing some research for my thesis.â€�

“If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.”
Jessica Fortunato, Nocturnal Embers

Dalai Lama XIV
“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

John Fowles
“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.”
John Fowles, The Magus

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing requires a degree of both detachment and immersion. People banished from a community find themselves perfectly positioned to become writers. No one can silence an exile. An exile encapsulates no need to placate anybody except for himself or herself.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Deborah Landau
“mostly dreams reject us
lights go up at daybreak
no reentry”
Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

Michael Bassey Johnson
“A loner is a person who has signed up to be banished to a lifetime of solitude.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia