Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One 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.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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