Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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