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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.
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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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