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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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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"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 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."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"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."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing."
"I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully."
"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."
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."
"You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?"
"And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready."
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