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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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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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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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Nothing 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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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