to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Weather creates character.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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