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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

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
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
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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Bears Face Water
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People