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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The past is a sorry country.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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