Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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