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“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung high overhead, the rhythm and drawl of daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what it is today. There is beauty in the discrepancy -- two things that seems oppositional, coming together.”
― One Italian Summer
― One Italian Summer
“On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
“You can call me a thief if you like, a thief of ceremonies”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
“I don't have much practice sitting in men's laps ... outside mall Santas when I was a little girl.”
― The Temptation of Eden
― The Temptation of Eden
“I've found it hard sometimes to turn my back on the natural call of the waves, and I don't envy the temperament of vultures or of stars. The blinds at my windows have been fluttering for fifty years.”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
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