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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Rome Tired Wish
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Abiding Medicine Soul
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

Children Goodness Responsibility
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dubious Evil Faces
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Creativity Ideas Success
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

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
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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Mistake Past Thinking
What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Call Creativity Desire
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

Art Inspirational Reality
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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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Hands Home Regret
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Contain Love Other
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Food Gay Informal Relationship
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Air Fire Islands
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Evil Pain Struggle