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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
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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Lesson Matter Rome
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
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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Mistake Past Thinking
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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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Artist Husband Movement

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