To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
-
-
There are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON