All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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