Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Weather creates character.
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