"You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property."
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"The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage."
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"My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it."
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"A house is not a home without a cat."
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"Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world."
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"I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?"
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"A house can have integrity, just like a person."
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"There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it."
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"It's only a house when it's filled with people you love."
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"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do."
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"When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection."
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"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't"
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"My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors."
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"The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind."
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"I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours."
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"Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections."
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"Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso."
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"If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house."
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