All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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