"Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home."
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"He hath eaten me out of house and home."
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"In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?"
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"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
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"How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home."
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"New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome."
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"In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away"
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"Where there is no temple there shall be no homes."
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"I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough."
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"Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies."
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"You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit."
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"When we awaken the love for God, that love naturally extends toward every living being. Also, the concept of Krishna and Radha, the masculine and feminine aspect of the one supreme God, was so inclusive that it touched my heart. So when Prabhupada came, I was already following his path. But it was when I saw his compassion, concern and deep wisdom, that I accepted him as my guru and decided to try and assist him. I felt that was where my real home was."
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"I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs."
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"Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page."
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"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."
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"The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home."
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"Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home."
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"I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales out of school, shortly after I became Home Secretary, and he said that when people used to ask him whether he enjoyed it he'd reply that "enjoy" wasn't quite the right description."
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"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."
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"The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again."
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