Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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What you desire you call into being.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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