I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The past is a sorry country.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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