"Your house is your larger body."
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"No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house."
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"The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation."
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"probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone."
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"You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness."
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"When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary."
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"We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest."
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"Imagine yourself as a living house."
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"It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."
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"Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house."
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"Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants."
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"I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red."
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"If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress."
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"It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss."
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"The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens."
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"The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done."
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"With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house."
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"All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
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"I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible."
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"The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates."
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