To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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 sleep is an act of faith.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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