the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Weather creates character.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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