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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
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
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Art Inspirational Reality
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
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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Dream Quality Romance
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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Lesson Matter Rome
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
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
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share