Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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[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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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