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• My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

  Aziz Ansari

  Dad, Son, America

  "‘Master of None’ Creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang on Turning Dinner Conversation into Michelin Star TV". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. November 6, 2015.

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• If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

  Eloisa James

  Sleep, Doors, House

  Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Lizards, Pay

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.132, Heinemann

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• We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.

  Joe McGinniss

  Fun, Long, Wife

  Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

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• I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!

  Wyclef Jean

  No Excuses, Projects, Mansions

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2009

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• Life is a smoke that curls-
  Curls in a flickering skein,
  That winds and whisks and whirls,
  A figment thin and vain,
  Into the vast inane.
  One end for hut and hall.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Curls

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Men, Progress

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mud, Timbuktu, University

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R.J. Rushdoony, 1973.

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• Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.

  Will Cuppy

  Thinking, Islands, People

  "Living from Can to Mouth". Comic interview with Jo Ranson for Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, No. 5, November 24, 1929.

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• My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

  Sally Potter

  Writing, Hands, Solitude

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Morning, Book, Rivers

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “HOMESPUN TALES TRILOGY: Rose o' the River, The Old Peabody Pew & Susanna and Sue (Illustrated): Three Small Town Novels in One Volume”, p.6, e-artnow

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• Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

  James Wolcott

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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• What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Boston, Months, Subway

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

  Knut Hamsun

  Rocks, Looks, Gray

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

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• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Palaces, Rags

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

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• I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

  Wyclef Jean

  School, Kfc, Bird

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beach, Wall, Dwelling

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only to free you from obstructions. If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don't separate from this skin bag here and now.

  Shitou Xiqian

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Hands

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• I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

  Trisha Goddard

  Views, People, Black

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

  John Muir

  Hurt, Hunting, Fire

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.645, e-artnow

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• I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

  Ben Nicholson

  Book, Body, Shelter

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television Commercials, Firsts, Ninth Grade

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