In memory Venice is always magic.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Desire creates its own object.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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