I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Weather creates character.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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