One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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