Padgett Powell Quotes

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

I don't feel like I've ever been in mainstream society.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I always felt an outsider.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.