"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."

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"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

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"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."

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