Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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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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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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