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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
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 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
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
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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Bears Face Water
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Food is my drug of choice.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation

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