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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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• A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Purpose, Kind, Pilgrim

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.25, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Fall, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

  Harvey Rice

  Art, Eye, Sky

  Harvey Rice (1858). “Mount Vernon: And Other Poems”, p.152

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• America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

  Theodore White

  Europe, America, Hopeful

  Theodore H. White (1961). “THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960”

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• You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Mom, Dog, Laughing

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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• Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

  Alex Webb

  Editors, Ideas, Trying

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• The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dream, Men, Clouds

  "The Road of Azrael". Book by Robert E. Howard, 1976.

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• I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

  Joanna Newsom

  Home, Half, Kind

  Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. November 20, 2006.

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• There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Home

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• I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Real, Eye, Oasis

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

  Lloyd Alexander

  Luck, Forget

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.117, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Mean, Fate, Sake

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Children, Fire, Ice

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Sentinel”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host

  Stephenie Meyer

  Flower, Love You, Remember You

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• Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

  Jim Harrison

  Walking

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Good Luck, Wish, Needs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

  A. E. Housman

  Mother, Lying, Son

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Give me the end of the year an' its fun
  When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
  Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
  Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
  Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
  See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
  See the old table with all of its chairs
  An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Song, Prayer

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Thanksgiving”

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• All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Men, Quality

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Museums, Self, Intellectual

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• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Snow, Made, Bigs

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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