My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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What you desire you call into being.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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