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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"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."

"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."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

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

"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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"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."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."

"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."
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