I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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