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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
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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Lesson Matter Rome
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard

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