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“If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.”

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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south…

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My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

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I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my…

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

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If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Sophie Kinsella

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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

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As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls…

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Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

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