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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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"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.

by Helen Rowland Found in: Home Quotes,
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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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A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

by Le Corbusier Found in: Home Quotes, Houses Quotes,
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There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that read more

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

by Tecumseh Found in: Home Quotes,
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At night returning, every labour sped,
He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
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At night returning, every labour sped,
He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is home, though it be never so homely.

Home is home, though it be never so homely.

by John Clarke Found in: Home Quotes,
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Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

by Eliza Dushku Found in: Home Quotes,
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When the hornet hangs in the holly hock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose,
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When the hornet hangs in the holly hock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose,
And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
And summer is near its close--
It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;
And dusk, and dew, and home again!

by Madison Julius Cawein Found in: Home Quotes,
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