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"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."
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"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."
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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
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"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."
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"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets."
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"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11."
Childhood
"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."
Persistence
"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."
Possibility
"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs."
Identity
"I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues."
Hope
"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
Crime
"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
Science
"Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel."
Time
"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time."
Life
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