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• Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, Faces, Sells

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• There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Numbers, America

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• What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

  Etta James

  Worry, Forget, Trouble

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Jul 30, 2013

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• Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

  Angelina Jolie

  Bigger And Better Things, Dreamer, Wish

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• You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Tired, People, Wish

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Girl, Goodbye, Moving

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

  A. A. Milne

  Running, Nurse, Towns

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Struggle, Islamic

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.200, Macmillan

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• So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, New Life, Today

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

  Tamora Pierce

  Obnoxious

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• To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Goal, Different, Walks

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.108, Penguin

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• It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Irritating

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• People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Moving, Years

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.119, Canongate Books

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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.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Hate, Past

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

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• If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Thinking, Life Going On

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

  Byron Katie

  Real, Miracle, Missing

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• From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

  Tony Hillerman

  Rain, Order, Seems

  Tony Hillerman (1990). “Coyote waits”, Harpercollins

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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Long, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, Rose, Katrina

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  Louis L'Amour

  People, Important, Would Be

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

  O.R. Melling

  Next, Like You, Feels

  O.R. Melling (2012). “The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King”, Amulet Books

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• ...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

  Robin Hobb

  Lonely, Family And Friends, Sometimes

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.231, Spectra

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• The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the United States as it was before it was spoiled by immigrants and the enfranchisement of the blacks. This state of mind allows too many of us to lie and cheat and steal from the rest of us, to sell us junk and addictive poisons and corrupting entertainments. What are the rest of us, after all, but sub-human aborigines?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Lying, Past

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• Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,” said Magnus. “Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Space, Long, Waiting

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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