Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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To 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.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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