the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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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.
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