Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
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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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf 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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians 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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
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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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