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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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