I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Weather creates character.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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