Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Grizzuti Harrisonwas an American journalist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her autobiographical work, particularly her account of growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and for her travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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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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illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
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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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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Porches are America's lost rooms.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover ...
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.