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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
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
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
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
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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 Goodness Responsibility
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
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
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
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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Dream Quality Romance

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