In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWeather creates character.
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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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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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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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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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