There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Weather creates character.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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