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"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
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"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

"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."

"Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."
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"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."

"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."

"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."

"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."

"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
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