Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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