Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955
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Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCThere is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935