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.
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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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 islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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What you desire you call into being.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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The past is a sorry country.
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