Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONMy mother was my first jealous lover.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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