All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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.
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