| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38452 |
| QUOTATION: | The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), U.S. poet, author. “The Happy Exile,” The Province of the Heart (1959). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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