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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Weather creates character.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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