Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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