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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Borders Pulse Travel
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Fusion Praise Work
To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Act Faith Sleep
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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Falling Love Real Travel
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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Bears Face Water
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Air Fire Islands
In memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Magic Memories Venice
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 HARRISON

Children Goodness Responsibility
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Prayer Sometimes Thinking
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Ideas Original People
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Facts Feelings Mean
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Artist Husband Movement
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Mistake Past Thinking
The past can be tamed and controlled.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Controlled Past Tamed
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Crisis Stress Trouble
The past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Country Past Sorry