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

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Home Writing

Speaker

William Faulkner

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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Adlai Stevenson

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Nature of freedom Freedom Political theory
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Adlai Stevenson
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1952 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. "Safeguards Against Communism." 7 Oct. 1952, Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI, USA.

Another quote about Home

He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic
Home

Author

Kenneth Grahame
Source
The Wind in the Willows
Medium
Novel
Genre
Children's literature
Language
English
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 5.