Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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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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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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