#dislocation

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. ↗

— Bob Mould

#being #conducive #dislocation #having #i

There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This address, as we know it, would be lost forever and we’ll wake up in a box-sized room: cramped, trampled and sensationally unhappy.' ('Left from Dhakeshwari') ↗

— Kunal Sen

#dislocation #home #rootsbelonging #urbanisation #home

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#clear #concentrated #dislocation #disruption #ignore

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation. ↗

— James Larkin

#constant #dislocation #essential #may #means

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. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good