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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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