Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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