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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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I learned why out riding alone is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley

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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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I still watch Idol, and its still the No. 1 show, so obviously Im not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained. – Kelly Clarkson

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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. – Dalai Lama

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