We don&#39;t want other people poking into our artistic pie.

In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.

The most clear-sided view of the darkest  possible situation is itself an act of optimism

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.  I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.  She put her small hand on mine.  The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.

What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

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