There are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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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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[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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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 our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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