"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

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"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

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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

Home, Death, Night, Will

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

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

"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."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

Home, Abuse, Children, Crime

"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

Home, Time

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

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"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

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"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

Home, Success, Quality, Comedy

"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

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

"I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility."

Ernest Istook, American Politician

Home, Help, May, Parents

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"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."

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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."

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"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."

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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."

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"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."

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"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."

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"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."

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