I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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