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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Desire creates its own object.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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