Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne 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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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