Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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