All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Weather creates character.
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