List of Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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?
Falling In Love Travel Real
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.
Sports Water Care
Desire creates its own object.
Desire Objects
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.
Betrayal Fall Love Is
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Pain Struggle Evil
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
Travel Pulse Borders
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.
Regret Home Hands
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.
Dream Romance Quality
There are no inanimate objects.
Inanimate Objects Objects
The islands of italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
Fire Islands Air
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.
Tired Rome Wish
If there is one lesson rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
Rome Lessons Matter
  • Born: September 14, 1934
  • Died: April 24, 2002
  • Occupation: Journalist
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