Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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