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    Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest read more

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

by Marguerite Duras Found in: Home Quotes,
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

by Thomas Campion Found in: Home Quotes,
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

by Maya Angelou Found in: Home Quotes,
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as
well for his defence against read more

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as
well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his
repose.

by Lord Edward Coke Found in: Home Quotes,
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For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

by Abraham Cowley Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house is not a home.

A house is not a home.

by Polly Adler Found in: Home Quotes,
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where read more

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,
By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Home Quotes,
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At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant read more

At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

by Robert Burns Found in: Home Quotes,
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The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or read more

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.

by Lady Kasluck Found in: Home Quotes,
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