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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
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
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Dream Quality Romance
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
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
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
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
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
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
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object

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