Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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