#alienated

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. ↗

— Lee Child

#away #corporate #decided #employment #experience

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#around #certain #certain extent #extent #feel

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#feel #happened #i

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#allies #canada #degree #events #influence

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#did #felt #i #never #school

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#alienated #alienation #colleagues #contact #feelings

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties. ↗

— Dick Spring

#because #deal #dialogue #discussion #felt

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#feeling #i #lot #rejected #spent