Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Weather creates character.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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