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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
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
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
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
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
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
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
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
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
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
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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