Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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