Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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