Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Weather creates character.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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