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"Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."
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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."
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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."
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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
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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 was wherever they were together, and it felt good."
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"Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option."
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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
Mother
"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
Being
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks."
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"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
Love
"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
Life
"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white."
Hair
"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
Books
"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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