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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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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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... memory is the only way home.
(Terry Tempest Williams, U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 10, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).)
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I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I Years had been from Home (l. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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Ye've got t' weep t' make it home, ye've got t' sit an' sigh
(Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. Home (l. 17). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.)
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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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