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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Cities Garden Travel
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Hands Home Regret
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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Falling Love Real Travel
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Mistake Past Thinking
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Character Create Weather
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Beautiful Childhood Garden
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Propensity Reality Share
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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Airplane Thinking Weight
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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Rome Tired Wish
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dying Embarrassment Humiliation

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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