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Dislocation Quotes
On feeling out of place, in language and in life.
One quote looks back centuries to describe generational Being cut off from a parent's experience, while another finds the same distance in a poem's own words.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
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- Nov 07, 2020