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““As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no longer reached the thin blond paneling of either wall, I remembered the plush two-story brick home Susan and I had shared in North Atlanta. It was nice. Very nice. But this impoverished place and the fringe existence I was now living here felt more like home.””

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“You’ve been talking about me in therapy?”“In therapy, in my sleep, in AA, in chat rooms, to strangers,” I said. “Women like you are…

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“What else?”“I don’t know,” she said, frustration eating at the edge of her words. “Do you want me to say that I woke up a few mornings with my panties twisted and a funny feeling in my vagina? Maybe I did. I’m just not sure, but if I did, my panties get twisted up all the time when I sleep—…

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“ventually Kathryn joined me by the lake with a blanket and picnic basket and entreated me to come away with her into the woods. Through her words and desire I could feel the pull of the divine and hear in her words the echo of the Song of Songs: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away with me.…

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“All the talent in the world can’t make up for attitude,” he said. “But attitude go a long way in making up for talent.”

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“It was the wound that caused this scar, and the blood it shed, that had saved my life, and had given me the opportunity…

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“inside. Daniels shook his head in confusion.”

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“We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists…

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“and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.”

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“Ironically, those with the least to say usually say the most and the most outwardly religious were often the most theologically unsophisticated.”

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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.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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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.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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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 war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

Victor Hugo

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

Adolf Loos

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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.

David Bowie

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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 and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I…

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