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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn memory Venice is always magic.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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