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?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBeware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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 is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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).
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What you desire you call into being.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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