Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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