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    OFFICIAL CLASS EPIGRAPHS:

    Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me," "see it my way," "change your mind."
    --Joan Didion



    Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.
    --William Faulkner




    THE IDEA OF HOME:


    This collection of quotes relating to "home" is far from complete.
    If you have a quotation of your own that you would like to add, e-mail the instructor.



    From classical literature



    Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I.
    When I was at home I was in a better place;
    but travellers must be content.
    --William Shakespeare

    The next way home's the farthest way about.
    --Francis Quarles

    The longest way round is the shortest way home.
    --Bohn

    Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
    To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
    Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
    --John Milton

    Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave
    Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
    --John Milton

    The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
    Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
    --Alexander Pope

    The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
    The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, 8
    The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
    And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
    --Thomas Gray

    Good bye, proud world! I 'm going home;
    Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    I wiped away the weeds and foam,
    I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
    But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
    Had left their beauty on the shore,
    With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
    --Emerson



    Modern Culture and Other Sources

    Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo.
    --George Bernard Shaw

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

    The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
    --Ed Howe

    You see much more of your children once they leave home.
    --Lucille Ball

    One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
    --Margaret Mead

    My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
    --Rosa Parks



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