Porches are America’s lost rooms.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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