There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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