to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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 most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Weather creates character.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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What you desire you call into being.
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