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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen.
    book-quoteobjectificationforeignersobjectification-of-women

  2. David Weber _ Oath of Swords

    If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Changing Planes

    The fact that the Hegnish have absolutely no interest in any people except themselves can also cause offense, or even rage. Foreigners exist. That is all the Hegnish know about them, and all they care to know. They are too polite to say that it is a pity that foreigners exist, but if they had to think about it, they would think so.
    book-quotenationalismxenophobiaforeigners

  4. Cormac McCarthy _ No Country for Old Men

    Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
    book-quotestrangershomeforeigners

  5. Iain M. Banks _ Inversions

    One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
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