The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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