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"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

"My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property."

"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

"So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home."

"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."
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"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."

"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."

"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
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