The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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