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Porches are America’s lost rooms.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
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 best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Lesson Matter Rome
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
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
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
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed

Porches are America’s lost rooms.

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