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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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Journalist
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Children hold us hostage they represent our commitment to the future.
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I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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Weather creates character.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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