The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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