my 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).

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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my 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).

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Bears

Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Pitfalls
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Humiliation
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.

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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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Islands
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.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Responsibility
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Boundaries Perfect
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.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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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In memory Venice is always magic.

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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Venice
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

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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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Anarchy
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Unhappiness
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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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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Add Rehearsal Wheel
Weather creates character.

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Weather creates character.
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Weather
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
my 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).

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

my 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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Bears
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Facts Feelings Mean
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

my 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).

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