Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONHow do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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