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The past is a sorry country.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
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
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
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Hands Home Regret
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
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
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way

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