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Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.

She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.

But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,

the pins stick farther in.


Tim Burton

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ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of...
PAUL BURTON A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as...
ROBERT BURTON Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON