Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Weather creates character.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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