"I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life."
"I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing."
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Source: Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub
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