Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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