If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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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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[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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Weather creates character.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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