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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Queens
New York
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I love medieval cities they do not clamor for attention they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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