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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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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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[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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Desire creates its own object.
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