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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Weather creates character.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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