Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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