Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Italian Days (1989)

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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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.

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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
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions — one's own soul.

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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison