All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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 no inanimate objects.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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