Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONHow 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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