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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. … ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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If you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. … their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste.
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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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