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The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.

François de La Rochefoucauld [François VI, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac]

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Apollo 13

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Apollo 13. Directed by Ron Howard. Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment, 1995.

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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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I went into the neighborhood in that State in which I was raised, where my mother and only sister were buried, and from which I had been absent about fifteen years. That part of the country is, within itself, as unpoetical as any spot of the earth; but still, seeing it and its objects and inhabitants aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry; though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another question.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Andrew Johnston. 18 Apr. 1846.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "To Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

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Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

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Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear.

Edward Said

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Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus, 1993.

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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

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Home, Sweet Home

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Payne, John Howard. "Home, Sweet Home." Clari, or the Maid of Milan. Composed by Henry Bishop. 1823, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, England, UK.

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Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.