Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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