Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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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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