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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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