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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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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"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."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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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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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready."
Family

"I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows."
Love

"I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half."
Happiness

"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

"I'd never have written the big books in London."
Books

"At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down."
Home

"My own parents loved each other very much."
Parenting

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."
Finance

"The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying."
Music

"I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off."
Health
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