To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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