In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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