"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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"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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"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."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Home, Love, People, Moment

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Home, Dream, Family, Memory

"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Home, Decay, Family, Community, Happiness

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

Zig Ziglar, American Author

Home, People, Relationships

"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Home, Danger

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Home, Success, Hope, Adversity

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Home, Feeling

"Aedion touched her shoulder. "Welcome home, Aelin."A land of towering mountains-the Stagehorns-spread before them, with valleys and rivers and hills; a land of untamed, wild beauty.Terrasen.And the smell-of pine and snow.. How had she never realized that Rowan's scent was of Terrasen, of home? Rowan came close enough to graze her shoulder and murmured, "I feel as if I've been looking for this place my entire life."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Home, Land, Memory, Identity

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

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Progress

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."

Car

"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."

People

"Americans like fat books and thin women."

Woman

"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."

Society

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

Work

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

Goal

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

Work

"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."

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"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."

Age