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.
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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Desire creates its own object.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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