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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"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."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."
"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
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