The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWeather creates character.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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