Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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The past is a sorry country.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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