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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

— Robert Frost North of Boston (1914)

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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Preface to A Way Out: A One-act Play (1929)

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.

In the Clearing (1962)

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957)

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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

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A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

Edward Coke Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

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