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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 Harrison

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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
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Hands Home Regret
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
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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Sex Sports Water
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth

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