To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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