Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes - Page 3

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• We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Betrayal, Fall, Love Is

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.201, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Hate, Weight, Body

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

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

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  Children, Commitment, Hostage

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.49, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

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  Sex, Satisfaction, Appetite

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

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• The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dream, Police, Fantasy

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• In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

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  Evil, Dubious, Faces

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

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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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  Regret, Home, Hands

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are no inanimate objects.

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  Inanimate Objects, Objects

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

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• It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

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  Dream, Romance, Quality

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

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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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  Rome, Lessons, Matter

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.319, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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  Tired, Rome, Wish

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.343, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

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  Fire, Islands, Air

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

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

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Numbness, Violence, Calm

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

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  Travel, Pulse, Borders

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.7, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

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  Falling In Love, Travel, Real

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

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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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