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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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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"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 lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
"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."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
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