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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Lesson Matter Rome
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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Abiding Medicine Soul
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Creativity Ideas Success
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
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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Artist Husband Movement
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
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 HARRISON

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Calm Numbness Violence
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul