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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
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
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
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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Rome Tired Wish
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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Cities Garden Travel
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
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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Falling Love Real Travel
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
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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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
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
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding