One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWomen’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Weather creates character.
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