Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The past is a sorry country.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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