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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
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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Sex Sports Water
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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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Bears Face Water
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
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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Lesson Matter Rome
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
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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Care Sports Water
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
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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Hands Home Regret
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands

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