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Porches are America’s lost rooms.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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
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
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
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
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
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

Porches are America’s lost rooms.

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