There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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