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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."

"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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

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

"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."

"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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