“When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create.”

—  Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

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