There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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What you desire you call into being.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Weather creates character.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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