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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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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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"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
"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."
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."
"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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