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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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