Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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 best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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