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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
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
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
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 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
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
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Art Inspirational Reality

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