Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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 best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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