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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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?
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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