“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
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American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
“I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.”
Pauline Hanson (1954) Australian politician
Maiden Speech (1996)
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) prime minister of Israel and Israeli general
November 5, 2002 Times Newspaper http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-469593,00.html <br class="br">2000s
“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“When you leave one home for another, there are always lessons to be learnt”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Farewell Speech (2006)
Context: When you leave one home for another, there are always lessons to be learnt. And I had more to learn when I moved on from Minnesota to the United Nations - the indispensable common house of the entire human family, which has been my main home for the last 44 years.
Mukesh Ambani (1957) Indian business magnate
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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950) senior officer of the British Army
Introduction by Wavell to…
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“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 5 (1947-1955), as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Source: undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993), p. 78