If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly... Because it dissolves in water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chinese were born ... with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplan...ted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You left me last evening, and I am already half homesick about it. Possibly I would not have thought about it so feelingly, but th...e sight of these gloves put me in mind of it. What a happy time we have had! Six weeks of real, genuine, old-fashioned love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 ...rollercoaster 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. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »