All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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