Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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