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“I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.”
Source : "Grand Designs Kevin McCloud: 'My House Is as Chaotic as Yours'". Interview with Judith Woods, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 27, 2010.
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“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”
Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”
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“Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.”
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“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
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“Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.”
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“It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.”
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“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.”
Source : Steven Millhauser (2007). “The King in the Tree”, p.5, Vintage
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“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”
Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.4, Booklassic