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Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in...

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William H. GassIn the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for ...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

Whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventual...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and ...

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I lived here once," the author said after a moment."Here? For a long time?""No. For just a little wh...

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A thousand years or more ago,When I was newly sewn,There lived four wizards of renown,Whose name are...

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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that wh...

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Mary StewartThe Stormy Petrel

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again ...

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