To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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