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I came here to take my son home and I realized he already is home.
(Robert Benton (b. 1932), U.S. screenwriter. Joanna (Meryl Streep), Kramer vs. Kramer, telling Ted (Dustin Hoffman) she's decided not to take custody of Billy (Justin Henry) (1979).)
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I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.
(Dewitt Bodeen (1908-1988), U.S. screenwriter, Gunther V. Fritsch, and Robert Wise. Miss Callahan (Eve March), The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
On first coming into the Reeds' home.)
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
(Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Frau Eva, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).)
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From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home!
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. God Bless America (song) (written 1917, published 1939).
This unofficial national anthem, originally written for the Broadway show, Yip Yip Yaphank (1918), is said to have provoked Woody Guthrie to compose This Land Is Your Land (see Guthrie on the land).)
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Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug
(Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. You're (l. 13-14). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.)
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
(Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), U.S. poet. W. W. (l. 1). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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I come from the city of Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
(John Collins Bossidy (1860-1928), U.S. poet. Boston (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.)
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head falls forward, fatigued at evening,
And dreams of home,
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. The Wanderer (l. 14-15). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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Home is where one starts from.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "East Coker.")
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Wendy, I'm home.
(Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), The Shining, possessed by spirits and preparing to kill Wendy, his wife (1980).
He is not at home, but in the haunted hotel where they are caretakers.)
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