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 HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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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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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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