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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
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"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old."


"Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees."


"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."
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