A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. - Elsie de Wolfe

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No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Elsie de Wolfe

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

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It is not chic to be too chic.

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I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

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the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

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I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

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