Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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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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