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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Weather creates character.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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