"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

Alice Walker, 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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"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

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"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

C. L. R. James, British Journalist

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"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home."

Florence King, American Writer

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"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick."

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"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."

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