The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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