Anywhere But Here Quotes

• There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Want Something   Sick   Different  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

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  e. e. cummings

  Travel   Memorable   Three  

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• There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.

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  Susan Sarandon

  Home   People   Thank God  

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

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  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying   Hate   Past  

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Writing   Constitution   Madison  

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• I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Average   Baseness   Anywhere But Here  

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• And I don't want you to be anywhere but here

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  Jessica Sorensen

  Want   Anywhere But Here  

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