Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONFood is my drug of choice.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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