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Porches are America’s lost rooms.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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