Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The past is a sorry country.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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[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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