Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The past is a sorry country.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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