"The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses."
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"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."
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"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."
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"If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside."
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"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
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"Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap."
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"It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied."
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"Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it."
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"If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room."
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"Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years."
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"Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper."
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"My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife."
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"A house is not a home."
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"I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish.""
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"Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph."
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"When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be."
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"Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise...Blessed are those whose strength is in you...blessed is the one who trusts in you!"
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"The world is the house of the strong."
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"He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house."
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"The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'."
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