Huts Quotes

• Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
  Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

  John Keats

  Life, Dust, Water

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 1

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• I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

  Roald Dahl

  Dark, Eight, Littles

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Dahls" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Experience, Gold, Littles

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• In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

  Karl August Varnhagen von Ense

  Heart, Romance, Ifs

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• The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Palaces, Fit

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

  Graham Greene

  Night, Thinking, Luxury

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

  Camille Paglia

  Hands, Civilization, Female

  Sexual Personae ch. 1 (1990)

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• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

  Vikram Seth

  Stars, Journey, Doors

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Palaces

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Regret, Roots, Tree

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Heart, People

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• One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

  Heinrich Heine

  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Education, Drama, Reading

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.55

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• They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

  William Golding

  Two, Feelings, Communicate

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.65, Al Manhal

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• They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

  William Golding

  Hate, Literature, Baffled

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.71, Penguin

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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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• The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

  William Golding

  Flower, Islands, Air

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• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Women, Cities

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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• 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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• 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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