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

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

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Where thou art, that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."

Washington Irving, American Writer

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

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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."

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"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."

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

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

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"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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