I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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