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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."
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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."
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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."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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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."
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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."
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"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."
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"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
Literature
"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't."
Music
"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."
People
"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."
Writing
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
Perception
"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."
Home
"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."
Favorite
"Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman."
Character
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
Photography
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
Life
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