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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
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
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
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
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
[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
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
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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Sex Sports Water
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
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
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands

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