The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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[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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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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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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