Carson McCullers
Novelist
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known."
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Homesick
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Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Wake up and ponder the future"
Alex Winston
Singer-Songwriter
"Obviously, you've spent some time in New York. I moved there and it was a bit much. It was a bit overwhelming for me. I didn't want to go out. I just felt a little homesick. I was just waiting to feel excited about something. I went through a phase of feeling kind of dull. It's really easy to shut off in New York and stay in your apartment."
Carson McCullers
Novelist
"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
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"There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia."
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"I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left."
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