In memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Weather creates character.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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