My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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