Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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