How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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