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"The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla."
"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse."
"I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft."
"The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'"
"I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind."
"'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before."
"Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper."
"Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!"
"I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there."
"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."
"A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition."
"I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise."
"The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die."
"Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining."
"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves."
"Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body."
"Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then I will be free to live in peace." What is "this" ? A diploma, a job, a house, the payment of a debt? If yo u th ink that way, peace wi ll never come. There is always another "th is" that wi ll fo llow the present one. If you are not living in peace at this moment, you will never be able to . If you truly wa nt to be at peace, you must be at peace right now. Otherwise, there is only "the hope of peace some day."
"A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants."
"I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs."
"Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs."
