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“I've met the folk that have the perfect garlands and sprays and wreaths, the folk that live in Williamsburg-style houses. And I've met the…

— Lisa Samson

“I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I…

— bob hicok

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself…

— Bill Bryson

“Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.”

— Nina Sankovitch

“Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell…

— Molly Wizenberg

“In the country neighbor­hood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and so cobwebbed…

— Mark Twain

“There is nothing louder than an American hotel; and, mind you, this was supposed to be a quiet, cozy, old-fashioned, homey place - 'gracious…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear rather than…

— Harvey H. Jackson

“After I was old enough to work, they’d have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I’d guard…

— Levon Helm

“This last week there’s a young couple here that were our neighbors in Indiana, and we’ve been spending quite a bit of time with…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“mess of Italy, France, and some burgeoning American cuisine that nobody really believed in yet? A hodgepodge that shouldn’t have worked? When I asked…

— Stephanie Danler

“We arrived at Council Bluffs at dawn; I looked out. All winter I’d been reading of the great wagon parties that held council there…

— Jack Kerouac