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• Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Rome, Lows, All Things

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Believe, Belief, Music Is

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• Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

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  Prayer, Thinking, Sometimes

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

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  Perfect, Architecture, Boundaries

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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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  Airplane, Thinking, Weight

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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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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  Fun, Serious Work, Anarchy

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

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  Illness, Crime

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• My mother was my first jealous lover.

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  Mother, Jealous, Firsts

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• I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

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  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

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  Work, Fusion, Praise

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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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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  Husband, Artist, Movement

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

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  Reality, Share, Propensity

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• Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

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  Faith, Understanding, Belief

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.261, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Garden, Childhood

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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  Thinking, Looks, Single Women

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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  Artistic, Strikes, Autobiography

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• Weather creates character.

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  Character, Weather

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.20, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

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  Waiting, Permanence

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• Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

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  Unhappiness, Accountants, Beggar

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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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  Medicine, Soul, Abiding

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.17, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Water, Faces, Bears

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• In memory Venice is always magic.

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  Memories, Venice, Magic

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.92, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

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  Gay

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.140, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

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  Soul, Priceless, Possession

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.211, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pitfalls, Way, Danger

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