"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

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"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

World

"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."

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