Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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.
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To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
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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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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Born: September 14, 1934
- Died: April 24, 2002
- Occupation: Journalist
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