the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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There are no inanimate objects.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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