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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. – Van Wyck Brooks

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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou

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