Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Weather creates character.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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.
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