Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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