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  1. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
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  2. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.
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  3. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.
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  4. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
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  5. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    {P}laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.
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  6. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.
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  7. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness.
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  8. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.
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  9. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.
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  10. Andrew Solomon _ Far & Away: Reporting from the

    {I}f you live abroad any good while, the notion of is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you.
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