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 HARRISONCollecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Desire creates its own object.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Weather creates character.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Food is my drug of choice.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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