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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
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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Sex Sports Water
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
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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Dream Quality Romance
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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Falling Love Real Travel
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Artistic Autobiography Strikes
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle

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