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I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward A...

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From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun success...

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I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

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...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it...

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But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a...

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I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world,...

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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin ...

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Where's your home, then?" asked the Snork Maiden."Nowhere" said Snufkin a little sadly, "or everywhe...

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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a ho...

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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing pat...

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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a...

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You shall not go down good twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed

This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger long...

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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of gl...

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V. S. NaipaulA Way in the World

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the...

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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leav...

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of E...

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I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su...

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It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's ...

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Walker PercyLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately...

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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend...

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It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparsenes...

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Wallace StegnerWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroo...

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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called...

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The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and ba...

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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission...

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home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to ch...

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

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William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy Warrior

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese peo...

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When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possib...

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I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the ide...

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You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your ho...

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They caught up with each other's news casually, leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to...

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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of y...

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In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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And friends abroad must bear in mindFriends at home they leave behind.Oh, I shall be stiff and coldW...

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It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from t...

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One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home w...

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Alain de BottonA Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for ...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind ...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for e...

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman,...

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There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the busi...

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Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call ho...

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A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of l...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Kalahari Typing School for Men

I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own count...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his...

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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...

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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came h...

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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

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Alison BechdelFun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's ...

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I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of r...

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Amitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own re...

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I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with ...

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Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to lon...

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Ann DruyanA Famous Broken Heart: A Fantasy Novel

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home -...

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This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea's lightly iced,Unsalty...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect...

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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

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O enchanted land of my childhood, a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness....

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I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have r...

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Maria is the best reason to come home.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthw...

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I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country r...

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...

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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an atto...

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He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working...

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When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name an...

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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in...

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field t...

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In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assist...

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Whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventual...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life