Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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