“ Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ”
- Carol Nelson- Copy
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“ Homesickness is… absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time… You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange… ”
- Carson McCullers- Copy
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“ Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ”
- Loren Eiseley- Copy
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