There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past is a sorry country.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Weather creates character.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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