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Quoted in The Grove:   costume

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
~Yiddish proverb

There’s a point… when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
~Ursula K Le Guin

It is a despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
~Charles Baudelaire

EndQuote:
The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.
~Kamand Kojouri

 

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Exercise Prompt for 11/01:   fear

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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor’s first line, so it’s gotta be right!
~Xavier Dolan

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth — it really does establish who they are.
~Colleen Atwood

I put the costume on and said ‘It’s not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,’ so it’s all good.
~Chris Hemsworth

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
~Mason Cooley

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I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveler.
~Julia Sawalha

I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
~Stephanie Perkins

…and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that’s when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
~Cary Grant

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Posted from the Grove

It took me a while to warm to the ’20s costumes on ‘Downton.’ I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, ‘We’re equal to men!’
~Lily James

Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, ‘No more masks.’ Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.
~Camille Paglia

I’m always trying to change things – change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh.
~Chris Jericho

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
~Vernon Howard

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~TimeLab:  Switzerland. Geneva & Romandy   (2:19)   the quiet costume of beauty
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/468473333

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~Casson Mann: Hollywood Costume (3:06) a costume museum
https://vimeo.com/81802154

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~Hazbin Hotel:  Halloween makeover   (4:11)   a tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QphrRS1lFSI

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Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
~Zig Ziglar

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
~Amit Kalantr

Self confidence is the best outfit, rock it and own it.
~Richa Kanwar

A good style fits like a good costume.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
~Sam Walton

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VIDEO:

Costumes are so much better than clothes. They’re like drugs, they change your personality.
~Mary Woronov

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.
~Richard Madden

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
~Diego Klattenhoff

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you’re wearing, and you turn into someone else.
~Jane Levy

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you’re pretending to be.
~John Boyne

I definitely feel, when I’m wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.
~Joan Severance

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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
~David Mamet

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
~Anna Held

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~Omeleto:  The Critic   (15:00)   award winning actress’ life and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vwLjvknN8

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~Omeleto:  Pawns   (12:29)   uniforms, merely costumes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjP9eYCM964

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~Young Vic Short Film:  The Roof    (9:51)   stellar cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtxhPMBeqQ

 

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I’ve been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.
~Austin Aries

No matter where they are or who they’re with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I’ll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.
~Meghan Daum

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
~Orson Scott Card

 

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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
~David Mamet

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
~Anna Held

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MUSIC:

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
~Vera Wang

Satan himself can’t save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
~Rudyard Kipling

When I go out and I’m presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don’t want it to look like I’m wearing a costume.
~Rachel Roy

My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
~Brenda Holloway

I don’t think women should look like costumes. I don’t think they should look like fashion victims.
~Ralph Lauren

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
~Kami Garcia

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.
~Amit Kalantri

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~Dodie Stevens:  Pink Shoe Laces   (2:36)   nostalgia #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVg

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~Jerry Lee Lewis:  Chantilly Lace   (2:48)   nostalgia #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3cMZkvjzNY

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~Mitch Ryder: Devil With A Blue Dress On,  feat. James Williamson   (3:24)   change of pace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUoxjmJ9FP4&list

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~Beyonce:  Haunted   (5:21)   you want costumes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4r4lysSgLE

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~Radiohead:  Creep, feat. Brian Justin Crum   (3:28)   needs a moment to recover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qc1X1tikg

 

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You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewelry you wear. If you have a basic outfit on – a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress – you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewelry. It helps if you change your shoes as well.
~Iris Apfel

Shoes make an outfit; they’re like rims for a car.
~Omari Hardwick

A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
~Oscar de la Renta

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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.
~Coco Chanel

I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I’ve always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.
~Iris Apfel

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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. ‘What is it?’ asked Larry at length. ‘It’s a bathing costume, of course,’ said Mother. ‘What on earth did you think it was?’ ‘It looks like a badly skinned whale,’ said Larry, peering at it closely.
~Gerald Durrell

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.
~Dave Barry

I am out in public and using the phone. I am in a phone booth, got the phone in my hand and a man taps on the glass and says You using the phone? Nope, I’m superman, i am just looking for my costume.
~Bill Engvall

One thing I learned is that it’s never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy — even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.
~Demetri Martin

Women: You can’t live with them, and you can’t get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
~Emo Philips

I’m thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
~Marilyn Manson

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.
~Dana Gould

Oh, hello,” Dr. M says, shaking Balder’s hand. “Wonderful costume. I’m a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?” It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg,” Balder answers. Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.
~Libba Bray

Nice costume,” he said. “Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours.” Amusement curled his mouth. “If you don’t like it, I can take it off.” I tapped my chin thoughtfully. “That just might be the best proposal I’ve had all night.” “My offers are always the best, Angel.”
~Becca Fitzpatrick

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This is ridiculous! I am going to look like I just hopped out of the hooker version of Alice in Wonderland.
~Jessica Fortunato

For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.
~Dana Gould

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it’s kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
~Chuck Klosterman

So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately?
~Rachel Vincent

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© David Lorenz Winston

 

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All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it’s theirs. It’s a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
~Robert Fulghum

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.
~Siri Hustvedt

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It’s hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume.
~Roger Ross Williams

Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing ‘We Shall Overcome’ in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.
~Salim Akil

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.
~Carl B Hamilton

There are things I cannot do, costumes I cannot wear. When I have taken stands on things, it is because I have thought carefully about them.
~Sylvie Guillem

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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his ‘being different’ gets in the way.
~Henri Nouwen

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.
~James Randi

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@Writers Platform

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
~Irving Kaufman

For the Indian, dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume, when he begins to dance to the music, he doesn’t simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.
~Jamake Highwater

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
~Douglas Coupland

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Glass Table:

~Christone:

A Book:  By Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! – a message to us from the dead – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away: and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. . . . I say we ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true; whether they are about religion or politics, farming, or trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth, which He has put into the hearts of some man to speak, that he may tell us what is good for our spirits, for our bodies for our country. Would to God that all here would make the rule never to look into an evil book!

 

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Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
~Tim Heidecker

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there’s something great about loving what you love and not caring if it’s unpopular.
~Kristen Bell

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so décolleté as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
~Honore de Balzac

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming … Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it’s funny, I was in costume and makeup – my tuxedo and makeup because I’d done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.
~Gene Wilder

 

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Exercise Prompt:   costume

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Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.
~Stacy London

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
~Madeline Zima

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.
~David Byrne

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
~Loretta Young

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

The Politico

Crowns for the clowns
Who rule and rage
Who decorate time
Blank history’s page

Tyrants and despots admiring dictators
Bullies and bullets and human degraders
Ruder than crude and berating debater
Legal escapee and loophole creator

Deny the facts in defiance
Forsaking proven alliances
Despising reason & science
Ignoring legal compliance

Flouting the laws flaunting his cause
Rushing to punish, no process, no pause
Favors Russian the bear baring its claws
Would kill for applause just one of his flaws

Unseemly greed, huge hunger for money
Willing to poison the gold nature of honey
Ringmaster apprentice, circus not funny
Debt-ridden past, cloudy future not sunny

Fake orange in bloom
White plaster buffoon
Patriotic costume
A virtual cartoon

A backstage, low-grade, unqualified actor
Where a ham who can smirk doesn’t actually factor
Or a swindling, chiseling, non-paying contractor
A nut house defector and genius detractor

A nation in tatters
The rich getting fatter
An unbridled satyr
Because only he mattered

Red, white and blue, a harlequin showman
Blinkered and blind, a petulant shaman
Failure to protect not a reason to crow, man
Pleads like, elect me, but voters say no, man

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The Poetaster

Dilettante bard, failed as composer
Second-rate minstrel, unrated poet
Flailing at rhyming, a poser and loser
Confessing, yes, think I don’t know it

Unpardonable sin
Offending the process
Punning for fun
Spewing his nonsense

For abusing the craft
Finally brought to task
Why do it, they asked
But he only laughed

Rather strive and to fail
At work that I love, see
The chores that but pale
Won’t improve me or move me

Don’t waste your time
Simply turn the page
Just understand that I’m
Never saint neither sage

More nude than prude
Bare self on a shelf
As book ends feud
Penning, costumes off

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5-7-5-7-7

uniform costume
173rd, Airborne
outfits the finest
dress greens to jungle fatigues
dressed to kill or die trying

 

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I’m a light bearer dressed in a sleep wear.
~Ana Claudia Antunes

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s hard to tell
if we close our eyes or if night
opens in us other starred eyes,
if it burrows into the wall of our dream
till some other door opens.
But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment,
is spent in one beat
of the darkness,
and falls at our feet, cast off
as the day stirs and sails away with us.
~Pablo Neruda

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it’s easy to be scared by dreams.
~Scott Sigler

I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
~Anais Nin

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.
~Marya Hornbacher

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
~Chuck Palahniuk

Get my swan costume ready.
~Anna Pavlova

 

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Quoted in The Grove:  ghost

“We don’t believe in ghosts, Mrs. Phipps.”
“Don’t matter if you believe in them or not. If they’re there, they’re there.”
~Joan Lowery Nixon

Owen Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I; or so can any man:
But will they come, when you do call for them?
~William Shakespeare

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
~Samuel Johnson

EndQuote:
The paranormal, you can’t pick and choose. It’s all or nothing.
~Zak Bagans]

 

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Exercise Prompt for 10/25:   costume

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
~Thomas Carlyle

I don’t believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
~Otto Penzler

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.
~Natalie Dormer

All a skeptic is someone who hasn’t had an experience yet.
~Jason Hawes

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Posted from the Grove

Surely the supreme problem for science to solve if she can, is whether life, as we know it, can exist without protoplasm, or whether we are but the creatures of an idle day; whether the present life is the entrance to an infinite and unseen world beyond, or “the Universe but a soulless interaction of atoms, and life a paltry misery closed in the grave.
~William F Barrett

Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It’s going back home…. We unzip the body, so to speak, let it fall to the ground and walk through the next door clothed in our spiritual form, which was always there inside the physical body.
~Anne Puryear

I don’t believe that ghosts are “spirits of the dead” because I don’t believe in death. In the multiverse, once you’re possible, you exist. And once you exist, you exist forever one way or another. Besides, death is the absence of life, and the ghosts I’ve met are very much alive. What we call ghosts are lifeforms just as you and I are.
~Paul F Eno

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and return again…. Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
~Arthur C Clarke

If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
~Brian Aldiss

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VIDEO:

~Elemental’s Markham Heid:  Why the Stressed Brain Falls Back on Old Habits
https://elemental.medium.com/why-the-stressed-brain-falls-back-on-old-habits-a84e3dd049c9

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MADKESHWAR Foundation: Painting Trees  —  (2:28)   mid-air phantoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1eIFTBNWU

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~Johnnie Walker Blue:  A Gentleman’s Wager   (6:28)   would that all commercials were as entertaining — starring Jude Law & Giancarlo Giannini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUKMhw4hr4

 

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
~James Matthew Barrie

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
~Italo Calvino

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.
~Mark Twain

 

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~VICTORIA:  Xibalba   (2:05)   crossing over
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/466494550

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~Omeleto:  The Wonderful   (9:09)   a do-over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6eR0p2HPA

 

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To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.
~Norman O Brown

I think in a lot of cases, ghosts are history demanding to be remembered.
~Jeff Belanger

Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.
~Sue Grafton

[H]e had a strange sense of being haunted, a feeling that the shades of his imagination were stepping out into the real world, that destiny was acquiring the slow, fatal logic of a dream. ‘Now I know what a ghost is,’ he thought. ‘Unfinished business, that’s what.’
~Salman Rushdie

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MUSIC:

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
~John Donne

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…Lovers are
Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot
Of their misdeeds.
~George H Boker

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

If you listen carefully, you can still hear the beating of his broken heart.
~David Berenbaum

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~Grateful Dead:  Attics of My Life  —  Pepper and Sassafras cover   (4:04)   simple by design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=almbctWcGLY

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~Juice Newton:  Angel of the Morning   (3:53)   a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzGMEfbnAw&list

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~Spiderbait:  Ghost Riders in the Sky   (4:51)   the outlaw rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvBHDRsFAmo

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~Amanda Lago:  Ghost   (3:40)   abandoned, ghosted
https://vimeo.com/230441767

 

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Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.
~German Proverb

My ghost? Do you suppose I’m fool enough to go to the expense of keeping one of my own, when there are so many charming ones in my friends’ closets?
~Edith Wharton

This is a true story. There’s not much point in inventing ghost stories — anyone can do it.
~Michael McCabe

The experienced reader knows it was Christmas Eve, without my telling him. It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.
~Jerome K Jerome

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Ye who, passing graves by night,
Glance not to the left nor right,
Lest a spirit should arise,
Cold and white, to freeze your eyes…
~James Russell Lowell

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today,
I wish, I wish he’d go away.

When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn’t see him there at all!
~Hughes Mearns

But then there was that talk about a spectre cat. I ain’t frightened of much that I know of. Put a man before me, or a dog, or a horse, and I’m ready to tackle ’em, one down and other come up, or altogether if they like; but when you come to spectres, I ain’t ashamed to say I’m not up to ’em…. Anything that’s alive I don’t give way to; but when it comes to ghosts and spectres, I take a back seat, and I don’t care who knows it.
~B L Farjeon

We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman’s toilet and she never had ghost problems again.
~Jason Hawes

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Must be a rule in the ghost handbook — if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
~Kelley Armstrong

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part — once in bed, you’re safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you’re safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

If anyone boos you offstage, that is simply applause from ghosts.
~Sharon Needles

You’re spooky, he said, You knew what I was thinking. That’s not spooky, she said, That’s married.
~Dean Koontz

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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
~Anne Boleyn (beheaded)

Even more than dying itself, I’m scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
~Kate Christensen

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.
~Charles Darwin

I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God
~Robert Browning

If the dead can’t rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?
~Cheri Revai

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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare

It’s a big spooky place when you’re in it alone. It’s like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a church can be creepy when it’s empty. You ever been in a church after hours?
~Benjamin R Smith

One of the things people don’t know about exorcism, is that you can’t really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.
~Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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@Writers Platform

Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.
~Emily Dickinson

There is something ghostly in all great art.
~Lafcadio Hearn

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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind
Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,
Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,
Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
~Neil Gaiman

Shadows mutter, mist replies;
darkness purrs as midnight sighs.
~Rusty Fischer

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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
~Maggie Smith

It’s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can’t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
~John Malkovich

 

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Exercise Prompt:  ghost

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When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt… I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.
~Judith Wright

I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
~Umberto Eco

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To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
~Barbara Tuchman

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
~Francis Bacon

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Autobiography

Worthy warlocks, authors’ due
Bled black ink, dead poets hue
Libros, ego’s Church of Worship
Uninhibited books extolling selves
Books like ghosts inhabit shelves
Undaunted ids dead yet flaunting
Haunted, unblunted storied lives

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Oh $#!+  F**K

Theatres open
Showings random
Audiences haunted
Storied fandom
Ghosts from the past
Mirrored phantoms
Shedding actors
Tearfully canned ’em

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Wish

I want to be awake at the end
Vigilant
To cross that bridge from life
To be aware as a ghost
Or evaporate
To dissipate as energy
Like an echo
Or a lightning bolt

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The Deal

There grows a mind overseeing the net
Overlooking, overriding, overall and yet
There’s a ghost above all that owes us a debt
Wisdom from sins we committed and abet
Consequence, not the answers we hoped to get

 

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I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I’m sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I’m very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
~Isabel Allende

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
~Algernon Blackwood

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~George Carlin

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
~Debbie Reynolds

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Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.
~John Cameron Mitchell

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing ‘real’ was at risk, what would you do? You’d live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That’s what the ghosts want us to do – all the exciting things they no longer can.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Quoted in The Grove:   law

Justice? You get justice in the next world; in this world you have the law.
~William Gaddis

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Justice is incidental to law and order.
~John Edgar Hoover

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
~Earl Warren

 

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Exercise Prompt for 10/18:   ghost

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
~Oscar Wilde

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.
~Paul Russell

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~Louis Brandeis

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~Edward Abbey

You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.
~Pan Macmillan

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
~Charlotte Bronte

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.
~Amy Harmon

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.
~Ward Becker

The law is hard, but it is the law.
~Cassandra Clare

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~Jay Nordlinger:  Right Words — On how to write, and what to read
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/right-words-how-to-write-what-to-read/

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~Laura Vanderkam @The Forge:  The Work Day, Then Done
https://forge.medium.com/the-new-way-to-know-when-youre-done-with-work-84c4745fec03

— also —

~Natasha Frost @The Forge:  The Workweek: Not 5 Days, but 7 Ways
https://forge.medium.com/7-ways-to-do-a-workweek-9925ebf7d050

 

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
~Pearl S Buck

Poverty is the mother of crime.
~Marcus Aurelius

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
~Anatole France

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.
~Judge Sturgess

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
~Marguerite Gardiner

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
~Aristotle

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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~Howard Scott

It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
~Author unknown

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VIDEO:

Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments.
~Bert Masterson/Earl Wilson

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
~Charles Evans Hughes

The more laws the more offenders.
~Thomas Fuller

The more laws, the less justice.
~German proverb

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
~Erik Pepke

Law never made men a whit more just.
~Henry David Thoreau

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~Connection (starring Jude Law):  (10:11)   stranger than fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87B1tz3KdOg

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~Dust:  Final Offer   (11:23)   small-time lawyer, cosmic stakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g

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~Boris Johnson X The Clash:  I Fought the Law   (0:54)   English humour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0pTpwqkB48

 

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Law without reason is criminal.
~Criss Jami

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
~Chaim Weizmann

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.
~Robert Brault

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~Robert A Heinlein

Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
~Augustine of Hippo

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MUSIC:

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
~Keith Richards

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
~Mick Jagger

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
~Sid Vicious

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control; it means out of their control.
~Jim Dodge

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The Jive Aces Skiffle Combo:  Mama Don’t Allow   (4:33)   Mama’s law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tHj1Q39oFQ

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~All Star Garage Band:  I Fought the Law   (2:40)  a constellation of stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk8uCsI0FdM

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~Eddie Van Halen:  Eruption Guitar Solo   (13:05)   genius and the guitar
wait for it, watch his face for it, the joy of melody and full-on anarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg

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~Law:  Elissa   (3:09)   triangles come in Arabic, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ambi1Ssohk

 

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Legislative acts murder more men than the assassin.
~James Lendall Basford

The sun is but a little swinging ball;
The hills are tiny, and the seas are small;
The sky is not so lofty, after all.
But see! This man we’re hanging — in him lies,
No matter what the guilt for which he dies,
A living soul, and who can guess its size?
~Mary Carolyn Davies

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
~Remy de Gourmont

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
~Jesse Jackson

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We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.
~Will Rogers

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
~Norm Crosby

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~Robert Frost

I broke a mirror in my house and was supposed to get seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
~Steven Wright

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
~Will Rogers

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
~Charles Dickens

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.
~Author Unknown

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
~H L Mencken

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An appeal… is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
~Finley Peter Dunne

Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say: My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way; but the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope, that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.
~Author Unknown

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@Writers Platform

Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
~Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
~Ambrose Bierce

A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself.
~Lord Brougham

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.
~Welsh Proverb

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
~Abraham Lincoln

 

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Exercise Prompt:   law

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Many things have been introduced into the common law which are contrary to logical reason, for the sake of the common welfare.
~Latin saying

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
~Wendell Phillips

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Lawless

Lawless in a land that endless lies
‘Neath an open vault of wilderness skies
Anarchy of the wild-born unbranded id
The loveless, friendless Outlaw Kid

Knifed my brother, shot my father
Raped my sister, then my mother
Tracked them, found them, killed them
Left unburied, let the wild dogs eat them

Untamed country, unnamed county
Uncaged hunter, unbadged duty
Wanted poster, free-ranging maverick
On the run, escape-their-noose trick

Unmatched beauty, ranch hand’s daughter
Eyes far bluer than deep lake water
Hopeless, roped me, refused their bounty
Hid me, loved me, then let me go free

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Unite The Divide

We were the United States
Not the Divided States
One time as One
Now done and gone

Fractious brothers and quarreling sisters
Burning each other, painfully blistering
Born one family, the same mother land
Same household rules, fair father’s hand

One land, one law, wed together as parents
Myriad expressions of ten million talents
Encompass the breadth, the width and length
Cemented as one for tensile strength

A strong constitution, source of family health
Repaying with kindness for our spiritual wealth
We are the United States, not the divided states
Debating and growing, knowing and crowing…

Our country, one family  — never less than great

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5-7-5-7-7   5-7-5

in awe of the law
black ink, fluid with wisdom
words etched on vellum
soft walls tall against chaos
gift of order nurtures art

yet love has no rules
mutiny and anarchy
the borderless heart

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5-7-5

law of the land
fame, carved-in-stone gaming rules
can be bought for cash

 

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed.
~Emma Goldman

Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
~Azarias

Judicial judgment must take deep account … of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
~Justice Felix Frankfurter

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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