Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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