Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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