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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
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
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
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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Lesson Matter Rome
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry

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