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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Desire creates its own object.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Weather creates character.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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