"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."
-John Cheever
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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.“
-John Cheever
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"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
-John Cheever
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"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
-John Cheever
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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
-John Cheever
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"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
-John Cheever
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"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."
-John Cheever
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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
-George A. Moore
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
-Babe Ruth
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
-Robert Frost
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
-William Ellery Channing
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"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
-Edward R. Murrow
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"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."
-Billy Graham
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