The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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