My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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