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He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he wou...

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Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he wou...

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Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand...

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Neil StraussThe Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.

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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom

I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'...

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God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

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Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commen...

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...

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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will ...

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope i...

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to c...

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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight o...

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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in....

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Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls ...

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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to th...

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It’s well known that he who returns never left

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those ex...

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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play show...

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Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All...

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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a lands...

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What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off fr...

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You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

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Paul TherouxDark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and ...

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For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he...

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Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot lo...

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The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distract...

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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, ho...

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American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn...

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We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn ...

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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands th...

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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...

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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot ...

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All my life, I have been searching for a home," the drow said quietly. "All my life, I have been wan...

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olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she...

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The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They ...

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R. Scott BakkerThe White Luck Warrior

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being o...

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I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and y...

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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, wri...

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A kind of memory that tells usthat what we're now striving for was oncenearer and truer and attached...

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Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we ca...

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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show i...

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptan...

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What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with...

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I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It...

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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you...

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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lo...

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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe...

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Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home

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Richard BrautiganLoading Mercury With a Pitchfork

It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absor...

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There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as wher...

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Richard ProennekeOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you ...

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And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio sayin...

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Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who w...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the...

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The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today,...

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In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me ha...

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe n...

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A man goes away from his home and it is in him to do it. He lies in strange beds in the dark, and th...

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It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was c...

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He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined ...

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This, it occurred to me, was the deeper meaning in the mournful merriment I had been part of that da...

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Rod DreherThe Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am gratefu...

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and ...

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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from...

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...

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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we coul...

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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in t...

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Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this charact...

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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev...

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter ho...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, pu...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with ano...

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It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit l...

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Scott LynchRed Seas Under Red Skies

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...

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