All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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