I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf 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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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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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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