Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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