Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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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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Weather creates character.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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