One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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 gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Weather creates character.
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