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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."
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"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."
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"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."
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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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"Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing."
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"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that."
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"My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home."
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"Education, like neurosis, begins at home."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
Curriculum
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
Sports
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