To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWeather creates character.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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