If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past is a sorry country.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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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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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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