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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.


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This page presents the quote "Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.". Author of this quote is Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose. This quote is about belonging, attachment, homelessness, home, anchoring, roots,.