"May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world."
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"there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls"
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"Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving"
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"When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have social tools, and you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more."
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"I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world."
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"My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes"
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"But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman."
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"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"
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"If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity."
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"There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone."
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"There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not."
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"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house."
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"One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge."
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"You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
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"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."
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"Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating."
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"What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out."
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"Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told."
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"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
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