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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

House Art Nature Haunt
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life Exempt Good Tongues
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The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Failure Dread Success Awful
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Despised Holiday Worth Father
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Auditorium Blind Classroom Date
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Men Fail Through Lack
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Black hating black is the reason why the growth is taunt

Black Hating Reason Growth
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I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

Definitely Haunted Houses Scary
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

After Been Decade Defiance
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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

Cannot Dealt Earth Forever
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When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Across Around Chance Come
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Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

Appreciate Every Haunting Moment
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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

All Day Aunt Day Games
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen.

Would Not Be Good
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Desperate Jauntiness Orchestra Fiddling
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us.

Wild Hope Christmas World
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Convey Story Particular Idea
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Also Big Breaking Confront
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
After Far Haunt Horror
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Be Happy Fear Happy Haunting
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Angeles Aunt Father Grade
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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If you want to give them hot hot, do it with your success, not your revenge. To pepper them, do it with your upward mobility, not by flaunting things you buy, but can’t really afford. Even the best revenge can’t hurt your haters like your success!

Success Revenge Pepper them Haters
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

Afraid Aunt Black Breasts
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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Disappointing Legs Strong Idea
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The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.
Breath Dying-lilies Haunted Twilight
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.

Shuddered away Enduring love Mean
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No matter who you are you can overcome that pain that’s holding you back, that past hurt that’s haunting you. You can find your inner dreamer. Just keep pushing through one day at a time. God is your strength.

No matter Overcome Pain
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.

Aunt Because Encouraged Family
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Both Did Face Gave
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Communism Europe Haunting Specter
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

Good Challenge Yourself Really daunting
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Unfinished business Comes back Haunt you Who swears
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The challenges to educating our girls remain daunting, ranging from financial constraints to social and cultural injustices.

The challenges Educating Our girls Remain daunting
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Desist from the curse of profiting from Covid19. Runaway from it because the pain from those suffering deeply will haunt you strongly

Desist from Profiting Runaway The pain
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To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

Haunted Past Failures Successes
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness

Happy You Generous Haunt
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

Idea Death Human Man
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear

Hell Pleasure Haunted Fear
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If I die and one of y’all tweet a memorial of me using a photo of Cuba Gooding, Jr., I’m going to haunt you.

I die A memorial A photo Haunt you
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The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator

Future Hunted Alive Predator
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