The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON