Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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How 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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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