the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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 places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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