I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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