Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Weather creates character.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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