Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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