the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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