Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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Image, Insanity is a lack of proportion.

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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, The past is a sorry country.

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The past is a sorry country.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Image, Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as

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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.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one

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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.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask

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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.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps:

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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.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Image, The islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth,

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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay …

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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether

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Nothing 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.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, To sleep is an act of faith.

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To sleep is an act of faith.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Image, Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at

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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Image, All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison