The past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Weather creates character.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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