“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
“You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 2 (p. 55)
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