Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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