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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Hands Home Regret
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
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
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
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
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
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
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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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
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
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
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 our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other

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