the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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