"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

Home, Literature, London, Shakespeare

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"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

Lesley Garrett, English Musician

Home, Truth, Opera

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Home, Privacy, Identity, Trust

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Home, Intellect

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Home, Truth, Emotion, Homelessness

"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

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."

Christian Morgenstern, German Poet

Home,

"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

Home, Ladies, Lady

"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Home, Comfort, Location, Life

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Home, Party

"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."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Home, Love, People, Moment

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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

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"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

Fiction

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

Friendship

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

Love

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

Dream

"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."

World

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

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"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

"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."

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."

"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

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"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."