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“N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' (“A Provincial Tale”)”
Yevgeny Zamyatin
“His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.”
Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation“The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.”
Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides“A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.”
G. K. Chesterton“I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen”
Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me“Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls“There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.”
Bret Harte“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what we can become.”
Rick Gekoski, Darke“The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America“I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.”
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