To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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