One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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Weather creates character.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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