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).
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPorches are America’s lost rooms.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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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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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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