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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...

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Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry o...

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T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even ...

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On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the gro...

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He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incide...

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The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...

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There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be ...

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When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars...

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But the plans were on display…”“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...

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My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit e...

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new day...

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I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one ...

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new dayd...

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Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the buil...

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Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three ...

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A house without books is like a room without windows.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live...

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I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to...

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...

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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at onc...

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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

A man's house is his castle.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...

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It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard...

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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of elec...

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In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man do...

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Casy said, "Ol' Tom's house can't be more'n a mile from here. Ain't she over that third rise?"Sure,"...

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Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state...

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My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my cur...

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A house is a machine for living in.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...

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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it,...

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Girl Without HandsWalking through the ruinson your way to workthat do not look like ruinswith the su...

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few p...

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Language is the house of the truth of Being.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we hav...

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I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 196...

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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Mayb...

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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International Hou...

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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

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He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say t...

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the...

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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and...

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I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which th...

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Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were ve...

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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't ha...

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...

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Tennessee WilliamsThe Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

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My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's...

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Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

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May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in...

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For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together ...

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I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and ba...

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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...

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Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a fa...

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...

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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included ...

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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...

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My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on....

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It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plo...

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He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the pave...

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I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kil...

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Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.