Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Weather creates character.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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