I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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