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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Silence is the garment of light.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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