Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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