"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

Home, Americans, Right, Trees

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"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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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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"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."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

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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."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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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."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

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