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"Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)"
"To dwell is to garden."
"Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?"
"A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers."
"The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure."
"We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream."
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."
"You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it."
"I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached."
"There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that."
"On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat."
"It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable."
"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow."
"If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing."
"I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it."
"Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever."
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
"She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind."
"People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture."
"This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright."
