“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“… we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.”
— Aldous Huxley, book The Doors of Perception
Source: The Doors of Perception
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[2012-02-24, Mitt, Michigan and a Couple of Cadillacs, Charles M., Blow, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/opinion/blow-mitt-romney-michigan-and-a-couple-of-cadillacs.html, 2012-07-03]
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