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 HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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