Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no inanimate objects.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The past is a sorry country.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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 is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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