"We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”"

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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

— Alasdair Gray