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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Strong, People, Feelings

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.31, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland

  Ian Anderson

  Song, Sunshine, Dark

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• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

  Aeschylus

  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  William Watson

  Rooms, Host, Mines

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• I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Car, House, Vision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.

  Jordan Mechner

  Cutting, Different, Rope

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• Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Home, Wind, Dear

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.100, Taylor & Francis

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• The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, House, Prison

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Food, Past, Men

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

  Aesop

  Welcome, Uninvited Guests, Uninvited

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.106

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• When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.

  Lesley Kagen

  Memories, Pops, Recalls

  Lesley Kagen (2010). “Tomorrow River”, p.24, Penguin

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• Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Dinner Table, Tables

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• It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

  Francesca Marciano

  Crazy, House, My Own

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• My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They're people who are actually interesting and they're doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Dream, Talking, Interesting

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

  Lord Byron

  Pretty Woman, Welcome, Attractiveness

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.84, Routledge

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• Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, May, Faces

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2011). “The Marble Faun: Or The Romance of Monte Beni”, p.336, The Floating Press

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• One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Soup, Attention

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Believe, Silence, Lasts

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• By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Wine, Max, Purpose

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “The Chronicles of Clovis”, p.57, Read Books Ltd

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• Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

  Roland Barthes

  Reading, Source, Process

  "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 5, 1971.

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• The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Loss

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