I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Weather creates character.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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What you desire you call into being.
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