"The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world."

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There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.

— Raymond Chandler