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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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 islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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