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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Airplane Thinking Weight
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
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
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
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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Abiding Medicine Soul
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
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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Mistake Past Thinking
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
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
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Absence Doctrine Tradition
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness

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