“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
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Hope Mirrlees 4
British translator, poet and novelist 1887–1978Related quotes
“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”
“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction
As reprinted in Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (1964; 2014 ebook), ISBN 978-1-101-13722-2, p. 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=d1GqjIhRejMC&pg=PT44.
"Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice" (1963)
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Variant: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Men are not accustomed to buy books unless they want them. If, on visiting the dwelling of a man of slender means, I find the reason why he has cheap carpets and very plain furniture to be that he may purchase books, he rises at once in my esteem. Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
“All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.”
"Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"
Actor (2009)
Context: I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere
Oh where did you go.
And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me.
All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.