To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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What you desire you call into being.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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