All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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