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“I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.”

Home Dream Easy Rooms Vision Mystery Strange Cold Died Transformation Certainty Vulnerability Ecstasy Sunny Helplessness Continuation Easy Days

Author:Georg Trakl

“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.”

Men Should Mind Different Home Wanted Culture Asks Felt My Own Study Strange He Man Men And Women My Friends Discrimination

Author:Malina Suliman

“Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.”

Hard Home Moving Sleep Creative Inspire Strange My Family Inspired Hotel Jet Be Inspired Sleeping In

Author:Stefon Harris

“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Mean Littles Important Home Women Animal Strange Birth Creatures Female Profound Males Notion Spread Caves Innovative Giving Birth Hunted

Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

“That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'”

Should Home Wife Events Strange Please Bed Flight Cheating Coming Home Location Emergencies Exit Flight Attendant

Author:Jay Leno

“I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!”

Thinking World Want Home Journey Strange Appeals Rama Another World Metaphorical Odysseus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.”

Self Home Running Earth Results Doors Strange Flying Commit Crafts Desperate Running Away Airborne

Book:A Bridge for Passing

Source: A Bridge for Passing

“Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.”

Children Real Home Parent Strange Citizens Neighbor Mysterious Regions Sibling Unfathomable Apparitions

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.”

Feels Home Certain Strange Superiority

Book:How Long Is Always?

Source: How Long Is Always?

“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home.”

Ifs Knows Way Home Faces Powerful Pieces Written Strange Conversation Paper Letters Distance Enormous Suspects Revealing Face To Face Written Word

Book:A Woman of Independent Means

Source: A Woman of Independent Means

“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

Men Looks Home America Form Asks House Voice Rooms Silence Rights Air Strange Activity Dignity Spread Determined Cruelty Censorship Sheep Committees Caucus

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Want Littles Home Views Cities New York Strange Dating Point Of View New York City Items Rummage Sales

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.”

Ifs Way Home Grows Growing Up Strange Proud Mountain Members Snow Lifts Horizon Crowns

Author:Margaret Craven

“Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.”

Trying Mean Home Results Strange Return Chaos Tales Familiar Native Contradiction Thieves Charming Vivid Nigeria Plunge Tempest Kinship Narrators Truism

Author:Billy Collins

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