Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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