All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Weather creates character.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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 past is a sorry country.
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