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“I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.”

Men Mind Home House Pieces Heard Sells Patterns Pockets Bricks Purchasers

Author:Jonathan Swift

“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.”

Want Home Eye Wanted Together Fantasy Heard Husband Singing Jokes Garden Opposites Affair Dinner Enjoyed Sat His Eyes My Husband Laughed Polite Adultery Courteous

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.”

Home Lasts Stars Water Forget Heard Sea Mountain Shining Wave Wide Speed Cradle Luminous Tranquil

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.”

“You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.”

Men Years Has Beens Stills States Home Bigs President United Deals United States Five Heard Five Years Prisoner President Obama Cuba Bud Back Home Approved Havana

Author:David Letterman

“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”

People Way Shows Home Reading Community Challenges Chance Pieces Heard Fronts Grew Grew Up Beats Studios Performers Spoken Word Mics

Author:Macklemore

“As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.”

Home Would Be Lying Speak Felt Heard Conversation Flow Dull Telling The Truth Considering Boast Exaggerating

Author:Bernard Berenson

“I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.”

Looks Home Humor Political Purpose Suffering Prayer Known Heard Understood Tragedy Cathedrals Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.”

People Wells Home House Heard Fool Paradise

Author:George S. Kaufman

“The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.”

Firsts Home School Class Teacher Heard Couple Drama High School Albums Kicks Texas Bob Dylan Back Home

Author:Steve Earle