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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Abiding Medicine Soul
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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Dream Quality Romance
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
[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
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Hands Home Regret
To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Sex Sports Water
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
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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Care Sports Water
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul

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