All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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