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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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Weather creates character.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Desire creates its own object.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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