Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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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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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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