Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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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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