American - Writer | May 17, 1978 -
I know that it can be really difficult to read about your own life... in someone else's words.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.
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I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.
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When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.
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Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.
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In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.
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My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years - I saw another, more glamorous world.
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To talk of food is to talk of mothers, at least for me.
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I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.
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When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.
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Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.
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At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.
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