Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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