Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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