It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON- Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWeather creates character.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONtruth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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