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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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I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...

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Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard seaso...

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I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I ...

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mi...

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The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home throu...

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It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived ec...

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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal...

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A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men...

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Home is where they want you to stay longer

He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home.

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place whe...

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Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said h...

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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a na...

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There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with th...

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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when...

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Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster ...

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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...

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Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd When I enter my home, Many homes seem to be waiting...

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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...

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If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the o...

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I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg...

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So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you tw...

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Corus lay on the southern bank of the Oloron River, towers glinting in the sun. The homes of wealthy...

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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against ...

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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside...

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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a......

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It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has h...

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The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere after...

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You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, ...

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