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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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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"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."
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"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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