"You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not."

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Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

Elsie de Wolfe

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“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
“I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.”
“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”

Source : James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”
“Faith is a great gift to have.”
“don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that dissatisfaction is as acute now as it was then. What's different, and what I think we can learn from these people, despite their abundant folly, is that we're not using the future as the organizing principle for our critique.”

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“Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.”
“Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.”
“There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.”

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