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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

John Cheever on Home

More quotes about Home

  • "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

    Margaret Thatcher on Home

  • "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

    Benjamin Franklin on Home

  • "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

  • "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

    Bill Cosby on Home

  • "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

    Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by John Cheever

  • "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."

  • "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

  • "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

  • "When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."

  • "Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."

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