Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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