The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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