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My mother was my first jealous lover.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Lesson Matter Rome
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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Abiding Medicine Soul
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
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
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
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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Bears Face Water

My mother was my first jealous lover.

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