Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONmy 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).
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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