To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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 past is a sorry country.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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