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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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There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

by George Gascoigne Found in: Home Quotes,
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I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel read more

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

by Charles Stuart Calverley Found in: Home Quotes,
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Where thou art, that is home.

Where thou art, that is home.

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

by Christian Morganstern Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

by May Sarton Found in: Home Quotes,
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What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

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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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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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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

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