Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Weather creates character.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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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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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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