Quoted in The Grove: house
A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it’s not weird. But if a man does it, it’s very disturbing. The way I’d describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn’t let me in any of the interesting rooms.
~Rob Schneider
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
~Franz Schubert
For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have – a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
~Jill Scott
EndQuote:
The world may be known
Without leaving the house.
~Laozi
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Exercise Prompt for 02/14: heart
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
~Goethe
Any home can be a castle when the king and the queen are in love.
~Author Unknown
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
~George Washington
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Very sorry can’t come. Lie follows by post.
~Charles Beresford, telegram reply to a dinner invitation
When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn’t come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he’d made and a note that said, ‘John, I’d love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.’
~John Prine
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
~Paul Theroux
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~Jane Austen
It’s not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I’ve done much longer trips on my own. It’s leaving home.
~Scott Westerfeld
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Posted from the Grove
This mess is a place!
~Author Unknown
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
~Author Unknown
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
~Katharine Whitehorn
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
~Laurence J Peter
Law of Window Cleaning: It’s on the other side.
~Author Unknown
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Houses are full of things that gather dust
~Jack Kerouac
DUST Mud with the juice squeezed out.
~Charles Wayland Towne
I dusted once. It came back. I’m not falling for that again.
~Internet meme
Dust is just a country accent.
~Author Unknown
This house is protected by killer dust bunnies.
~Author Unknown
Please don’t feed the dust bunnies.
~Author unknown
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
~Rudyard Kipling
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.
~Evan Esar
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.
~Robert Brault
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
~Heloise Cruse
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Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.
~Robert Brault
Dull women have immaculate homes.
~Author Unknown
A clean house is the sign of a boring person.
~Author Unknown
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
~Robert Brault
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~CINZA: KOREA (4:55) in the house of another country
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/463167819
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~Collector’s Weekly: Bottled Up: Scenes and Fantasies Bottled in Glass
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/whimsey-within-walls-of-glass/?utm_source
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Sometimes, you have to leave home. And you’ve been there for so long, you don’t know who or what you’ll be outside of it.
~Edward Kitsis
We cannot nurture our lost self unless we leave home.
~John Bradshaw
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~Robert Neelly Bellah
Husbands often leave home. Pets never do. There must be a reason.
~Richard Morris
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
~Oliver Goldsmith
Adventure must start with running away from home.
~William Bolitho
Leaving home’s a cinch. It’s the staying, once you’ve found it, that takes courage.
~Catherine Watson
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~Twyla Tharp
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Knowing how to enjoy going solo outside the home is just as important as living well inside of it.
~Eric Klinenberg
If you love your son, make him leave home.
~Japanese Proverb
This is what happens when you leave home. You meet… people.
~Jules Verne
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
~Victoria Beckham
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
~Plato
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
~Mahmoud Darwish
A lonely person is at home everywhere.
~Shashikant Nishant Sharma
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
~Beth Ditto
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
~Cesar Chavez
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VIDEO:
You could start an argument in an empty house.
~Jill Shalvis
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
~Publilius Syrus
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
~Michael Chabon
I don’t like being in houses alone.
~Martin Scorsese
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
~Gustav Mahler
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‘Oh, this coming back to an empty house,’ Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. ‘People – though perhaps it was only women – seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.’
~Barbara Pym
There’s no beauty without poignancy and there’s no poignancy without the feeling that it’s going, men, names, books, houses – bound for dust – mortal
~F Scott Fitzgerald
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Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.
~Robert Kennedy
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world.
~Lydia Millet
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
~Pam Brown
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~Dust: Tree House Time Machine (12:41) kids on a quest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu9t8QBpCg4
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~Omeleto: Baldwin Beauty (11:14) beauty home delivered, good-natured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA986N8WErw
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[N]o man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
~Charles Dudley Warner
House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
~Ambrose Bierce
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they’re ended.
~Colley Cibber
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
~Barbara Corcoran
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
~Guy Ritchie
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
~Frank McKinney Hubbard
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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~James Dent
There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.
~Joe Ryan
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People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
~Doug Larson
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind – a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.
~Woody Allen
It’s really the cat’s house – we just pay the mortgage.
~Author Unknown
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
~Adolf Loos
The ultimate goal of the architect…is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture… should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
~Alvar Aalto
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
~Thomas Reid
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
~Gustav Stickley
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
~Luis Barragan
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
~May Sarton
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MUSIC:
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
~Anton Chekhov
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
~Portuguese Proverb
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
~George Bernard Shaw
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
~Benjamin Franklin
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
~Victor Borge
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
~Author Unknown
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Keeping one’s guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
~Margaret Way
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
~Max Beerbohm
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~C/S/N/Y: Choir! — Our House (3:20) a feast of faces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYKctWcxNDg
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~Madness: Our House (3:46) the other one, energetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXuvdeEC5y8
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~Flo Rida: My House (3:16) sybaritic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35R9zQsAI
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~P!nk: Funhouse (3:06) clown infested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdjtqu3XK4U
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~Athens Creek: House of the Rising Home/Amazing Grace (7:54) interwoven, fused
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6vMpbppUg
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More is not better. Better is better. You don’t need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don’t need more stuff; you need stuff you’ll actually use.
~Alex Steffen
We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.
~Tulsi Tanti
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
~Andreas Capellanus
We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.
~Rob Machado
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You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house, and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, – you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe in love at first sight for houses – but not for people.
~Danielle Steel
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
~Lady Gaga
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~Joan Crawford
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~Homer
I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.
~Nancie J Carmody
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
~Erma Bombeck
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
~Erma Bombeck
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
~Quentin Crisp
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
~Erma Bombeck
Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.
~Anne Gibbons
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~Phyllis Diller
Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.
~Author Unknown
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In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
~Woody Allen
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’
~Joan Rivers
My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we’re having a change. We’re going to let her in.
~Les Dawson
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
~Henny Youngman
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t accidentally walk through into another dimension.
~Steven Wright
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
~Steven Wright
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
~Rod Stewart
Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
~C S Lewis
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Photographer unknown
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
~James Wolcott
As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together – and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House. ~Melania Trump
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
~H L Mencken
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
~Tennessee Williams
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At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They’re all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they’re all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That’s a formula for getting news.
~Bob Schieffer
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
~Donald Rumsfeld
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
~Doris Kearns Goodwin
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
~P J O’Rourke
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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
~Christopher Columbus
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~Jon Stewart
Albanians are right in knowing that far worse than to kill the criminal or the enemy is to burn his house.
~Rose Wilder Lane
Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don’t think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before ’48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.
~Elia Suleiman
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box.
~Unknown author
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@Writers Platform
The secret of poetry is never explained — is always new. …’Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve been writing on my own. It’s like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
~Travis Tritt
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The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
~Agatha Christie
The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes.
~Author Unknown
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.
~Jean Cocteau
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life’s ills.
~Sue Grafton
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Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.
~Frances Mayes
Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
~Claude Monet
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
~Edward Hopper
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
~Horace Mann
My working-class Italian-American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house.
~Martin Scorsese
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
~Henry Ward Beecher
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
~Sherman Alexie
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Books, lighthouses erected in the great sea of time…
~Edwin P Whipple
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
~Anne Lamott
Inside my empty bottle
I was constructing a lighthouse
While all the others
Were making ships.
~Charles Simic
When I did ‘Bumble-ardy,’ I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did ‘Bumble-ardy’. I did ‘Bumble-ardy’ to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
~Maurice Sendak
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
~Benjamin Franklin
At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark.
~Japanese proverb
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NOTE:
This week’s edition contains several quotes called out of retirement and reused, a number somewhat larger than usual. The editor does not apologize for this. Good quotes, like words, are versatile. Perfectly encapsulated thoughts, they slot comfortably into different surroundings much as would any good, multifaceted word.
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The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home.
~Chinese Proverb
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~Matsuo Basho
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When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
~Thornton Wilder
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George Moore
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
~Henry W Longfellow
It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.
~Charlotte Eriksson
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It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
~Lemony Snicket
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
~Author Unknown
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
~Khalil Gibran
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
~Author Unknown
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Exercise Prompt: house
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We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
~Barbara Kingsolver
He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house….he feels he is riding a floating skeleton…Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.
~Michael Ondaatje
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
inhabitant
windows, doors and rooms
and space
with room for me
roots for me
house or hovel
home for me
alone for me
mates would vouch
and all agree…
yeah, it’s better that way
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full Disclosure
a Nation in Tatters and Shards
from Boondoggle to Industry town
the Great white House of Cards
new King, new Queen, new Underlings
old Joker removed, Ruled out Discard pile
new Deck new Choir new Chance new Ring
Competence and Honor stamped Overdue
Arrive for Installation, full Integration
The creed we confess with the things we do
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dual doggerels dueling #7
early 2021
bitch and moan,
complain and grouse
bless this mess
this untidy house
party hardy
getting soused
wet t-shirt contest
unbuttoned blouse
lonely forlorn
fantasy
porn’s a bust
same ol’ stale old
their house afire
mine foul cursed
corroding time
pernicious dust
damned by age
to wilt and rust
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early 2021 #2
election fever
covid grieving
nearly over
when options open
free to browse
vaccine lots
to tequila shots
this house advice:
throw up a prayer
game’s not over
not worth the risk
be safe, beware
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5s & 7s
written in the genes
scrolled in the house of ages
inevitable
honor the promise
surrender the gift of life
full world, unhoused host
grey ones go invisible
gen house, next invincible
with self-effacing
self-erasing suicide
trade my house for sleep
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A house is a machine for living in.
~Le Corbusier
Imagine yourself as a living house.
~C S Lewis
Your house is your larger body.
~Khalil Gibran
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
~Gaston Bachelard
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
~Arthur Miller
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Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
~Christian Morgenstern
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other.
~Frederick W Robertson
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
~Vernon Baker
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
~Emily Dickinson
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
~Author Unknown
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
~Helen Rowland
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
~Charles Dickens
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~John Ed Pearce
Everything is restless until it comes home.
~John Bate
Home is where the wifi connects automatically.
~Internet meme
Welcome home my dear, you are arrived.
~Elton John
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