In memory Venice is always magic.
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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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