Insanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Weather creates character.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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