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  House Quotes - As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up   “Casy said, "Ol' Tom's house can't be more'n a mile from here. Ain't she over that third rise?"   Sure," said Joad. "Less somebody stole it, like Pa stole it."   Your pa stole it?"   Sure, got it a mile an' a half east of here an' drug it. Was a family livin' there, an' they moved away. Grampa an' Pa an' my brother Noah like to took the whole house, but she wouldn't come. They only got part of her. That's why she looks so funny on one end. They cut her in two an' drug her over with twelve head of horses and two mules. They was goin' back for the other half an' stick her together again, but before they got there Wink Manley come with his boys and stole the other half. Pa an' Grampa was pretty sore, but a little later them an' Wink got drunk together an' laughed their heads off about it. Wink, he say...

  House Quotes - The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out   “Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen.   You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.” ― Siddhārtha Gautama   “The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by Girl Scouts, by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.” ― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation   “I open my eyes. I want to know: what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in these blac...

  House Quotes - The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it   “A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann   “Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.” ― Lady Gaga   “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson   “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House   “But the plans were on ...