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“I dont want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now Im none of those things, and...”
“The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!”
“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world e...”
“The church is a house of prayer for all nations”
“Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one o...”
“I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.”
“He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.”
“For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim.”
“Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasnt. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its identify and its history. I couldnt h...”
“When I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind.You must hate me.She stared a long time at me.I did, she said slowly, But its mostly myself I hate.Dont, I said.An...”
“Those who think of their house as only a machine to live in should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.”
“He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the paved streets. The small suburban houses flash by like the pages of a book, not as when you turn them...”
“As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.”
“It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.”
“Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.”
“Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.”
“When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.”
“Tinkling sounds came from outside, of hammering and chiselling, as labourers worked like bees, and seven- or eight-storeyed buildings rose in the place of ancestral mansions that had been razed cru...”
“Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?”
“Houses are built to live in and not to look on.”
