Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAutobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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 is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Weather creates character.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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