In memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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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.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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.
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What you desire you call into being.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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