Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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