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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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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