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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Abiding Medicine Soul
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
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
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
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
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
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

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