“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
Source: Giovanni's Room
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(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987Related quotes

“You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.”
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

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“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
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