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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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