“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
Quoted in " How Did I Do That? http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/pritchett-complete.html" by Deborah Stead, in The New York Times (24 March 1991)
“All of life is a foreign country.”
Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), published in The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook (1987) edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, page 93.
Speech in Carlisle. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/alex-salmonds-st-georges-day-speech-full-text (23 April 2014)
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
First sentence.
The Go-Between (1953)
in the hands of imperialism
al-Dimuqratiyya Masdar Quwwa li al-Fard wa al-Mujtama, 1977, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.
“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/03/rand_paul_foreign_aid_goes_from_poor_people_in_rich_countries_to_rich_people_in_poor_countries.html, University of Kentucky, 3-27-2013.
2010s
Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XXXI: "The Riddle of the Ivy"
“The less democratic a country is, the move intense its foreign violence.”
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 109
