Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Desire creates its own object.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Weather creates character.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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