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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."
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"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."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"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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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
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"When humor goes, there goes civilization."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
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"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."
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"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
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"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."
Family


"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."
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"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
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