To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past is a sorry country.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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