To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Desire creates its own object.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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What you desire you call into being.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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