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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

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Insanity, Proportion

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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.

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Kindness, Imagination, Pitfalls

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To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

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Sports, Sex, Water

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

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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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Dying, Embarrassment, Humiliation

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

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Rome, Lows, All Things

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

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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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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.

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Mother, Jealous, Firsts

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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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Artistic, Strikes, Autobiography

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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.

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Past, Controlled, Tamed

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.171, Atlantic Monthly Press

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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

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Numbness, Violence, Calm

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The past is a sorry country.

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Country, Sorry, Past

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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

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Our Love

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

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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

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Unhappiness, Accountants, Beggar

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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.

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Sports, Water, Care

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

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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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Born: September 14, 1934
Died: April 24, 2002
Occupation: Journalist
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