In memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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