There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Food is my drug of choice.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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