The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians 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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There are no inanimate objects.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Weather creates character.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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