All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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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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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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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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