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• Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

  Maxim Gorky

  Air, Castles, Reader

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• The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Swimming, Night, California

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• It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

  Walter Scott

  Book, Stories, Privilege

  Sir Walter Scott (1831). “Waverley Novels: Kenilworth”, p.3

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• My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Holiday, Faces

  "Joan Rivers dies: Celebrate comedian's life with her 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liners" by Steve Anglesey and Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. September 04, 2014.

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• I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd ever known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.

  Denis Johnson

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Holiday

  "Jesus' Son". Book by Denis Johnson, December 1992.

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• J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

  Ansen Dibell

  Kings, Moving, Book

  Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Sleep, Europe

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• I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  Herman Melville

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Moby Dick' (1851) ch. 17

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• It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

  Christopher Moore

  Stars, Eight, Four

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• Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he promises to defend the inn with 'all the strength in his body.' I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue. I don't think he got it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Promise, Singing

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• For the next inn he spurs amain,
  In haste alights, and skuds away,
  But time and tide for no man stay.

  William Somervile

  Time, Men, Spurs

  William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.136

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• We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

  Gerhard

  Life, Home, Men

  "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spiritual, Home

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Home, Two, Soul

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• Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Air, Blue

  "I taste a liquor never brewed" l. 5 (ca. 1861)

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Stupid, Holiday, Thinking

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• We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

  John H. Vincent

  Home, Earth, Pilgrim

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 206, 1895.

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• The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

  Bill Ayers

  Nice, Canada, Clean

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Kyoto, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

  Coolio

  Holiday, Infidelity, Purses

  Song: Too Hot, Album: Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

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• These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians.

  Lzzy Hale

  Holiday, Cutting, Night

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Men, Looks

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

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• Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

  Lord Chesterfield

  Distance, Night, Fool

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.162

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• And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Age

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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