To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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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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Weather creates character.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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