If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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 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.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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