Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONNothing 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Our 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.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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