Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past is a sorry country.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Weather creates character.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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