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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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