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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
[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
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
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
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
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
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
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
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
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
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