Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Weather creates character.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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