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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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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."
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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."
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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."
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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."
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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."
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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
Education
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
Heart
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Family
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
Needs
"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."
Work
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
War
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