I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying 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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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