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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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
Silence is the garment of light.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar 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
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
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
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
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.
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Rome Tired Wish
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
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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Falling Love Real Travel
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry

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