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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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 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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The past is a sorry country.
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